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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2021
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Susan Wu Sanders, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Lily Zhu, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods provide for configuring, by a first wireless station using radio resource control (RRC), a plurality of Fifth Generation (5G) wireless stations associated with 5G secondary cell groups (SCGs), wherein the first wireless station is associated with a first anchor cell for the SCGs; determining, by the wireless station, that a dual connectivity (DC) user equipment (UE) device has a wireless connection to a first 5G wireless station via a first 5G cell, wherein a second 5G SCG is associated with a second one of the 5G wireless stations and the DC-UE device is located in an area associated with the first anchor cell and in an area associated with a second anchor cell; and switching, using a media access control (MAC) control element (CE) of the DC-UE device, the wireless connection from the first 5G cell to the second 5G cell.