METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE FULLY SEPARATED NETWORK SLICES

A single user device (UE) can be attached to multiple fully separated network slices. Each network slice may include respective access functions. Idle to active status can be applied across the fully separated network slices by releasing each network slice through transmission over radio resource channel (RRC) before releasing the RRC channel. Active to idle status can be applied across the fully separated network slices by receiving a first paging message at a UE in order to initialize a RRC channel for connecting a first network slice, and by receiving a downlink information transfer message in order to connect a second network slice over the RRC channel. A handover between nodes can include transmitting handover requests to individual network slices and aggregating acknowledgements at a node before sending a handover command to the UE.