Patent 11778528 was granted and assigned to Qualcomm on October, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may transmit, to a base station, a request for a cell switch based at least in part on a trigger condition associated with an uplink-only cell switch being satisfied; and perform the uplink-only cell switch based at least in part on a physical-layer or medium-access-control layer inter-cell mobility operation with the base station based at least in part on transmitting the request. Numerous other aspects are provided.