Sprint Spectrum L.p.

Maher Hasan

Sreekar Marupaduga

Rajveen Narendran

Saravana Velusamy

A method and system for dynamically controlling connectivity of a user equipment device (UE) in a wireless communication system. An example method includes (i) while the UE has dual connectivity with a first access node and a second access node, determining that power headroom of the UE on an air-interface connection between the UE and the second access node is threshold low, and (ii) responsive to at least the determining, transitioning the UE from having the dual connectivity with the first access node and the second access node to instead having standalone connectivity with the second access node. Transitioning the UE to having standalone connectivity with the second access node as to which the UE had threshold low power headroom may help to improve quality of communication between the UE and the second access node.

Dynamically transitioning a UE to standalone connectivity with an access node based on the UE having threshold low power headroom on a secondary connection with the access node

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Ashbum, VA, United States of America

Maher Hasan