Method and apparatus for recommending real-time handover to a target cell in open-radio access network (O-RAN) environment

A method and radio access network (RAN) controller (102) for providing real-time target cell recommendation for handover in an open-RAN (O-RAN) environment (400) is disclosed. The O-RAN environment has a virtualized network architecture having at least one RAN controller, the RAN controller is connected with a plurality of E2 nodes, the plurality of E2 nodes are connected to a plurality of user equipment (UEs) (112a, 112b, 112c, 112d and 112e) positioned in a serving cell (110) adjacent to a plurality of neighbour cells (108a,108b). The method comprising executing a first handover process to enable checking, at the atleast one UE, if triggering of handover is required and a second handover process to identify a target neighbour cell (108a/108b) for handover of the atleast one UE from the serving cell to the target neighbour cell and recommending the handover of the atleast one UE from the serving cell to the identified target neighbour cell based on the first handover process and the second handover process. The first handover process and the second handover process are triggered simultaneously.