CPC H04W 24/02 (2013.01) [H04W 52/28 (2013.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04W 76/23 (2018.02); H04W 76/27 (2018.02); H04W 76/30 (2018.02)] | 14 Claims |
1. A method comprising, by a user equipment (UE) device:
establishing an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (EUTRA) New Radio (NR) Dual Connectivity (ENDC) connection with a network, wherein the ENDC connection comprises a connection involving an evolved node B (eNB) and a gNodeB (gNB);
initiating a data session with the network over the ENDC connection;
determining that the UE device satisfies an overheating condition; and
indicating, at least in part based on determining that the UE device satisfies the overheating condition, a preference to drop one or more cells associated with the ENDC connection that correspond to the gNB and to continue the data session using the eNB;
wherein indicating the preference to drop one or more cells associated with the ENDC connection that correspond to the gNB comprises transmitting a drop priority list to the network;
wherein the drop priority list comprises a ranked ordering of preference for dropping a plurality of secondary cells (SCells) of the gNB.
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