Patent ID: 11864145
Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. An apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one memory comprising computer program code,
the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to
receive a network configuration comprising a timing advance command from a network element;
acquire at least measurement data of a serving cell relative to a first set of neighbor cells at a first time instance, and measurement data of the serving cell relative to a second set of neighbor cells at a second time instance according to the network configuration, wherein the first set of neighbor cells at the first time instance contains a threshold subset number of the neighbor cells from the second set of neighbor cells at the second time instance;
perform a timing advance validity check using at least the acquired measurement data from the first time instance and the second time instance; and
perform data transmission based on a result of the timing advance validity check.