CONFIGURATION OF CARRIERS FOR NON-MOBILITY RELATED PURPOSES

• Main Author: KOLEHMAINEN, Niko
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 09.03.2022
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

A method, apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided for configuring carriers and/or performing reference signal measurements. In one example implementation, the method may include a user equipment (UE) receiving carrier configuration information and carrier type information from a network node, the carrier type information including an indication whether a carrier is an offloading carrier; determining whether one or more offloading conditions to perform offloading measurements are satisfied; and performing the offloading measurements in response to determining that the one or more offloading conditions are satisfied. In an additional example implementation, the method may include a network node transmitting carrier configuration information and carrier type information to a user equipment (UE) and receiving offloading and/or mobility measurements from the user equipment (UE), the off-loading and/or mobility measurements generated at the user equipment (UE) based on the carrier configuration information and carrier type.