MULTI-OPERATOR HANDOVER IN NEW RADIO SHARED SPECTRUM

摘要

Multi-operator handover is disclosed for new radio (NR) shared spectrum (NR-SS) operations. In order to facilitate inter-operator handover operations, a base station, after receipt of a measurement report from a served user equipment (UE) may selectively instruct the UE to search and report an operator identifier (ID) of one or more second operator neighboring cells. In alternative aspects, a UE may store such network information, including operator ID, of all neighboring cells it measures during an idle state and report the network information to the base station when connection is established. The base station may then store the operator IDs in an neighboring operator database. The base station may then provide the operator ID for the neighboring operator to a UE for consideration of handover in future handover operations.