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

Claim 29:
30. An apparatus for wireless communication by a network entity, comprising:
one or more processors individually or collectively configured to execute instructions stored on one or more memories and to cause the network entity to:
transmit first signaling, to a user equipment (UE), configuring the UE with multiple candidate target physical cell identifiers (PCIs) of at least one candidate target cell;
transmit second signaling configuring the UE with at least one handover (HO) condition for each PCI of the multiple candidate target PCIs;
transmit third signaling configuring the UE to perform measurements for at least one PHY layer metric for each PCI of the multiple candidate target PCIs;
participate in an HO procedure of the UE to a target cell associated with a target PCI of one or more target PCIs selected from the multiple candidate target PCIs for HO for which the HO condition is satisfied, the HO procedure involving the UE transmitting a random access signal on an uplink (UL) resource configured for the target PCI, 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; and
transmit 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.