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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2020
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
Ahmad Awada, Munich, DE;
Jedrzej Stanczak, Wroclaw, PL;
Muhammad Naseer-Ul-Islam, Munich, DE;
Ingo Viering, Munich, DE;
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for source cell to provide a service/slice indication to the target cell in the handover preparation. The source cell provides to a target cell a list of one or more service/slice specific indications for individual ones of one or more network slices in a request for enhanced handover from the source cell to the target cell in a handover preparation phase. The source cell receives from the target cell, indications in a handover request acknowledgement of one or more selected network slices to be handed over from the source cell to the target cell using enhanced handovers. Performs make-before-break handovers to hand over these selected network slices from the source cell to the target cell and performs normal handovers for the one or more other network slices.