A user equipment, UE, comprising: control circuitry configured to: obtain metric related measurements for a directional communication system, the metric related measurements associated with an outage probability metric, and the measurements taken for a candidate cell; calculate one or more metrics for the candidate cell based on the obtained metric related measurements, wherein the one or more metrics for the candidate cell include the outage probability metric which includes a probability of a beam pair of the candidate cell by which a signal of the beam pair is below an outage threshold, wherein each beam pair corresponds to a beam index at the UE and a beam index for the candidate cell; wherein the signal of the beam pair is a function of reference signal received power, RSRP, of the beam pair of the candidate cell, and wherein the control circuitry is configured to utilize heuristic metrics to calculate the outage probability metric as inversely proportional to said heuristic metrics, wherein the heuristic metrics include a maximum pairwise great circle distance or an average great circle distance corresponding to steering angles among all possible UE beam pairs within the beam pairs from each candidate cell; wherein the great circle distance is a distance between two points on a unit sphere, where each point is a projection on the unit sphere of the steering angles of a particular UE beam pair and the corresponding distance is between the two points of any pair of associated beams on the unit sphere, select an alternative cell of a plurality of candidate cells based on the one or more calculated metrics and a transceiver configured to transmit a final decision, wherein the final decision includes the selected alternative cell and a cell handover from a serving cell to the selected alternative cell takes place as a result of the final decision. control circuitry configured to: obtain metric related measurements for a directional communication system, the metric related measurements associated with an outage probability metric, and the measurements taken for a candidate cell; calculate one or more metrics for the candidate cell based on the obtained metric related measurements, wherein the one or more metrics for the candidate cell include the outage probability metric which includes a probability of a beam pair of the candidate cell by which a signal of the beam pair is below an outage threshold, wherein each beam pair corresponds to a beam index at the UE and a beam index for the candidate cell; wherein the signal of the beam pair is a function of reference signal received power, RSRP, of the beam pair of the candidate cell, and wherein the control circuitry is configured to utilize heuristic metrics to calculate the outage probability metric as inversely proportional to said heuristic metrics, wherein the heuristic metrics include a maximum pairwise great circle distance or an average great circle distance corresponding to steering angles among all possible UE beam obtain metric related measurements for a directional communication system, the metric related measurements associated with an outage probability metric, and the measurements taken for a candidate cell; calculate one or more metrics for the candidate cell based on the obtained metric related measurements, wherein the one or more metrics for the candidate cell include the outage probability metric which includes a probability of a beam pair of the candidate cell by which a signal of the beam pair is below an outage threshold, wherein each beam pair corresponds to a beam index at the UE and a beam index for the candidate cell; wherein the signal of the beam pair is a function of reference signal received power, RSRP, of the beam pair of the candidate cell, and wherein the control circuitry is configured to utilize heuristic metrics to calculate the outage probability metric as inversely proportional to said heuristic metrics, wherein the heuristic metrics include a maximum pairwise great circle distance or an average great circle distance corresponding to steering angles among all possible UE beam pairs within the beam pairs from each candidate cell; wherein the great circle distance is a distance between two points on a unit sphere, where each point is a projection on the unit sphere of the steering angles of a particular UE beam pair and the corresponding distance is between the two points of any pair of associated beams on the unit sphere, select an alternative cell of a plurality of candidate cells based on the one or more calculated metrics and a transceiver configured to transmit a final decision, wherein the final decision includes the selected alternative cell and a cell handover from a serving cell to the selected alternative cell takes place as a result of the final decision. select an alternative cell of a plurality of candidate cells based on the one or more calculated metrics and a transceiver configured to transmit a final decision, wherein the final decision includes the selected alternative cell and a cell handover from a serving cell to the selected alternative cell takes place as a result of the final decision.