Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Zhixi Wang

Yang Zhao

Tao Cai

George Koudouridis

Henrik Lundqvist

Ming Fang

Jun Qin

Kari Juhani Leppanen

The present disclosure relates to an access network node for a wireless communication system. The access network node is configured to act as a source access network node or as a target access network node, and comprises a transceiver configured to receive a handover instruction from a control device, the handover instruction comprising a handover time instance for a user device, a processor configured to serve the user device by maintaining a data connection with the user device until the handover time instance, and share an Automatic Repeat Request/Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request, ARQ/HARQ, process with a target access network node for the user device; or serve the user device by maintaining a data connection with the user device after the handover time instance, and share a ARQ/HARQ process with a source access network node for the user device.

Handover between a source access node and a target access node using a control device

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Shanghai, China

Zhixi Wang