A user equipment (228, 229, 102) adapted to perform wireless communication comprising: a processor; and a memory (130, 132) coupled with the processor, the memory comprising executable instructions stored thereon that when executed by the processor cause the processor to effectuate operations comprising: operating in one of a first Radio Resource Control, RRC, state, second RRC state (212, 214), or third RRC state (216, 218), wherein the user equipment is in the second RRC state or the third RRC state when an RRC connection has been established; determining a mobility metric of the user equipment; detecting a change associated with the user equipment when the user equipment is operating in the second RRC state, the change associated with user equipment comprising the change of a Radio Access Network Registration Area, RRA, of the user equipment; based on a threshold associated with the mobility metric, determining whether to perform a location update of the user equipment operating in the second RRC state based on the change of RRA of the user equipment; and providing the location update of the user equipment operating in the second RRC state to a base station, wherein, the user equipment is adapted to store, in the second RRC state, an RRC context and is capable of monitoring for paging or system information broadcast and the RRA is used as a location tracking area at a Radio Access Network level. a processor; and a memory (130, 132) coupled with the processor, the memory comprising executable instructions stored thereon that when executed by the processor cause the processor to effectuate operations comprising: operating in one of a first Radio Resource Control, RRC, state, second RRC state (212, 214), or third RRC state (216, 218), wherein the user equipment is in the second RRC state or the third RRC state when an RRC connection has been established; determining a mobility metric of the user equipment; detecting a change associated with the user equipment when the user equipment is operating in the second RRC state, the change associated with user equipment comprising the change of a Radio Access Network Registration Area, RRA, of the user equipment; based on a threshold associated with the mobility metric, determining whether to perform a location update of the user equipment operating in the second RRC state based on the change of RRA of the user equipment; and providing the location update of the user equipment operating in the second RRC state to a base station, wherein, the user equipment is adapted to store, in the second RRC state, operating in one of a first Radio Resource Control, RRC, state, second RRC state (212, 214), or third RRC state (216, 218), wherein the user equipment is in the second RRC state or the third RRC state when an RRC connection has been established; determining a mobility metric of the user equipment; detecting a change associated with the user equipment when the user equipment is operating in the second RRC state, the change associated with user equipment comprising the change of a Radio Access Network Registration Area, RRA, of the user equipment; based on a threshold associated with the mobility metric, determining whether to perform a location update of the user equipment operating in the second RRC state based on the change of RRA of the user equipment; and providing the location update of the user equipment operating in the second RRC state to a base station, wherein, the user equipment is adapted to store, in the second RRC state, an RRC context and is capable of monitoring for paging or system information broadcast and the RRA is used as a location tracking area at a Radio Access Network level.