| CPC H04W 76/19 (2018.02) [H04L 1/1812 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 76/20 (2018.02)] | 12 Claims |

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1. A method performed by a network apparatus for handling a radio resource control (RRC) re-establishment procedure in a wireless network, the method comprising:
receiving, from a user equipment (UE), an RRC re-establishment request in accordance with a radio link failure being detected in the UE;
transmitting, to the UE, a downlink RRC re-establishment message;
receiving, from the UE, a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) level acknowledgement for the transmitted downlink RRC re-establishment message;
transmitting, to the UE, downlink control information (DCI) including a pre-emptive uplink resource grant in response to receiving the HARQ level acknowledgement for the transmitted downlink RRC re-establishment message; and
receiving, from the UE, an RRC re-establishment complete message uplink resources of the pre-emptive uplink resource grant.
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