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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2020
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
Embodiments include methods for beam-level mobility load balancing, MLB, in a radio access network, RAN. Optionally, such methods include receiving () measurement reports from a plurality of user equipment, each measurement report comprising radio measurements related to a source beam associated with a source node and target beams associated with one or more target nodes. Such methods include exchanging () beam-level load information with the target nodes and, based on the beam-level load information and (optionally) the reports, selecting () one or more target beams, associated with a particular target node, for MLB operations with the source beam. Such methods include transmitting (), to the particular target node, a request including one or more handover offsets to be applied during MLB operations between a group of source beams associated with the source node, including the source beam, and a group of target beams associated with the particular target node, including the selected target beams.