Patent ID: 11963248
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by one or more processors of a base station, the instructions to configure the base station for small data transmission (SDT) in a Fifth Generation New Radio (5G NR) network, and to cause the base station to perform operations comprising:
detecting a radio link failure during a first SDT of uplink (UL) data from user equipment (UE) in a Radio Resource Control Inactive (RRC_Inactive) state;
encoding a configuration message for transmission to the UE based on the radio link failure, the configuration message including at least one next-hop chaining count (NCC) parameter;
decoding a second configuration message from the UE, the second configuration message including an indication of a second SDT;
encoding a response message for transmission to the UE in response to the second configuration message, the response message including a UL grant; and
decoding the UL data for the second SDT, the UL data encoded using a secure key based on the at least one NCC parameter, and the UL data received based on the UL grant while the UE is in the RRC_Inactive state.