EP3167657A4

5G,4G

Title

INTER-MENB HANDOVER METHOD AND DEVICE IN A SMALL CELL SYSTEM

Application Number:

EP20150819389

Publication Date:

04-04-2018

Current Assignee:

Family ID:

Application Date:

10-07-2015

Declaring Company:

Publication Country:

US

Priority Date:

10-07-2014

Title

INTER-MENB HANDOVER METHOD AND DEVICE IN A SMALL CELL SYSTEM

Application Number:

EP20150819389

Family ID:

Publication Country:

US

Publication Date:

04-04-2018

Application Date:

10-07-2015

Priority Date:

10-07-2014

Current Assignee:

Declaring Company:

Abstract  Abstract

An embodiment of the present disclosure may provide an inter-master node, MN, handover method to a target MN from a source MN which provides dual-connectivity together with a secondary node, SN, the method comprising:receiving, by the target MN, a handover request message from the source MN, wherein the handover request message comprises an identity, ID, of a user equipment, UE, allocated at the SN and an ID of the SN;sending, by the target MN to the SN, a configuration request message including the ID of the UE allocated at the SN;receiving, by the target MN from the SN, a configuration request acknowledge message;sending, by the target MN to the source MN, a handover request acknowledge message including information indicating that an UE context in the SN is kept; andsending, by the target MN, a configuration completion message to the SN;wherein the ID of the UE allocated at the SN is an ID to identify the UE over an interface between the source MN and the SN.Another embodiment of the present disclosure may further provide corresponding target master node.

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