OPERATING USER EQUIPMENT IN 5G NR COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM

The present disclosure describes methods of operating user equipment in 5G NR communications system. In accordance with some of the embodiments， the method comprises detecting a condition related to the user equipment (UE) while in one of a radio frequency (RF) inactive state and a cell handover， the condition indicating one of (a) the UE is not in reception of signaling information from a serving base station during the RF inactive state and (b) the UE is out of synchronization with the serving base station; determining an event related to one of transmission of data by the UE， reception of data by the UE， and radio resource management (RRM) measurement by the UE in conjunction with the detected condition; and applying one or more of (a) a blind downlink control information (DCI) decoding， (b) a static DCI configuration and (c) a dynamic DCI configuration based on the determination to enable the UE to at least one of (a) receive the signaling information， (b) receive the data， and (c) perform radio resource management (RRM) measurement.