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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2023
Dish Wireless L.l.c., Englewood, CO (US);
Mehdi Alasti, Arlington, VA (US);
Khalid W. Al-Mufti, Sterling, VA (US);
Siddhartha Chenumolu, Broadlands, VA (US);
DISH WIRELESS L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US);
Abstract
Technologies for efficient handover in 5G networks are disclosed. An example method includes responsive to detecting that a user device is located in a geographic area with overlapping 5G coverage from a first gNB and a second gNB and that the user device is moving away from the first gNB's coverage toward the second gNB's coverage, determining to perform a light inter-gNB handover of the user device, and causing execution of the light inter-gNB handover by at least causing a physical switch from a physical CU-CP of the first gNB to a physical CU-CP of the second gNB, a logical switch from a logical CU-UP of the first gNB to a logical CU-UP of the second gNB, a logical switch from a logical DU of the first gNB to a logical DU of the second gBN, and a logical switch from a logical RU of the first gNB to a logical RU of the second gBN, wherein the logical switches are performed without transfer of context data associated with the user device.