USER EQUIPMENT, NETWORK NODE AND METHODS THEREIN FOR HANDLING A MOVING RADIO ACCESS NETWORK

A network node (110) of a wireless communication network (100) provides information to a User Equipment (UE) (120) that allows the UE (120) to adapt it radio measurements with respect to the network (100), to account for "link changes." Link changes are service-link and/or feeder-link changes arising from motion by the satellite(s) (106) included in the Radio Access Network (RAN) portion of the network (100). The UE (120) uses the provided information to adapt its radio measurements in conjunction with the link changes. Among the several advantages of accounting for satellite link changes in the manner contemplated are any one or more of reduced signaling going between the UE (120) and the network (100), reduced battery consumption at the UE (120), mitigation of the effects of the link changes on the radio measurements, avoidance of spurious measurements, and an effective "automation" of the timed changeover by the UE (120) to new measurement configurations, coincident with the occurrence of link changes.