UE Profiles and Dynamic UE Capability Change

Abstract

An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) comprises one or more processors coupled to a memory and configured to generate, at the UE, a UE profile message for transmission to a network (NW) via a base station. The UE profile message indicates support of one or more select UE profiles from a list of pre-determined UE profiles, and indicates which of the one or more select UE profiles is an active UE profile at the UE. Each UE profile comprises a pre-determined subset of individual UE capability features grouped together to define a UE role in the NW. The processors are configured to receive, at the UE, a UE profile confirmation message from the NW via the base station indicating UE profiles supported by the NW and acknowledging active UE profiles.

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