Patent ID: 11950160
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for wireless communications performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
receiving first signaling configuring the UE with multiple candidate target physical cell identifiers (PCIs) of at least one candidate target cell;
receiving second signaling configuring the UE with at least one handover (HO) condition for each PCI of the multiple candidate target PCIs;
receiving third signaling configuring the UE to perform measurements for at least one PHY layer metric for each PCI of the multiple candidate target PCIs;
detecting that an HO condition is satisfied for a target PCI of one or more target PCIs selected from the multiple candidate target PCIs for HO, wherein the HO condition for one or more PCIs of the multiple candidate target PCIs is based on the at least one PHY layer metric;
initiating an HO procedure to a target cell associated with the target PCI selected for HO and for which the HO condition is satisfied, the HO procedure involving transmitting a random access signal on an uplink (UL) resource configured for the target PCI; and
transmitting or receiving an HO complete message via physical (PHY) layer signaling or medium access control (MAC) layer signaling, the HO complete message indicating completion of the HO procedure.