Patent ID: 11876777
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A central entity in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network, comprising:
one or more memories; and
one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more processors configured to:
determine that a trigger condition, for updating transport network layer information of an IAB node in the IAB network, is satisfied based at least in part on a change of a first donor distributed unit, associated with the IAB node, to a second donor distributed unit in the IAB network; and
provide, to the IAB node and based at least in part on the trigger condition being satisfied, updated transport network layer information, identifying at least one of an Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) address or an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address, that is different for a signaling service than for a data transport and that is different for a non-user equipment (UE)-associated service than for a UE-associated service.