QUALCOMM Incorporated
CELL SYNCHRONIZATION IN PHYSICAL (PHY) LAYER AND MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC) LAYER MOBILITY

Abstract:

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to mobility techniques that allow for dynamically updating a set of cells activated to serve a user equipment (UE) and synchronizing with the cells activated to serve the UE. An example method generally includes receiving, from a network entity, signaling indicating a set of cells supported by one or more distributed units (DUs) under a common central unit (CU) and one or more timing advance groups (TAGs) for the set of cells; identifying a subset of the set of cells activated to serve the UE; receiving physical (PHY) layer or medium access control (MAC) layer mobility signaling; updating the subset of activated cells based on the mobility signaling; and communicating with the subset of activated cells based on a timing advance associated with the one or more TAGs in which the updated subset of activated cells belong.