Handover improvements for 5G air-to-ground systems

The invention relates to a method for switching a transceiver device, in particular a UE and/or an onboard device (OBE), from a serving cell to a target cell in a cellular communication network, the serving cell belonging to a first base station and the target cell belonging to a second base station, and the target cell is selected from a set of neighbor cells that are better than the serving cell by an offset, where the method comprises the steps of: I. sending a measurement report to the first base station based on an i. Distance criterion and optionally based on an ii. Trajectory criterion, the measurement report comprising information about a neighbor cell selected from the set of neighbor cells, iI. Receiving a handover command from the first base station, the handover command comprising an instruction for handover to a selected neighbor cell that becomes the target cell, and III. Completing handover with the second base station. Furthermore, the invention relates to a transceiver device comprising means