METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A CONNECTION HANDLING MECHANISM IN A L2 U2N RELAY CASE

Abstract: embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for a connection handling mechanism in a layer-2 (l2) ue-to-network (u2n) relay case in a communication system. according to an embodiment of the present application, a user equipment (ue) includes a transceiver and a processor coupled to the transceiver; and the processor is configured to: access a network node over an indirect path associated with a source relay node; in response to reception of a radio resource control (rrc) reconfiguration message for path switch via the transceiver from the network node, perform a path switch procedure from the indirect path to a target path, wherein the target path is a direct path between the ue and the network node or is another indirect path between the ue and the network node associated with a target relay node; and receive data via the transceiver from the source relay node over a source link between the ue and the source relay node during the path switch procedure.

Inventor(s): Lianhai Wu, Haiming Wang, Ran Yue

CPC Classification: H04W36/18 (for allowing seamless reselection, e.g. soft reselection)

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