COMMUNICATION DEVICE PRE-GRANT ASSISTANCE

A method performed by a network node for providing pre-grant assistance for a communication device having multi connectivity over two or more legs to two or more network nodes of a communications network is provided. The method includes determining a pre-grant assistance information for the communication device based on at least one of (i) a status of a radio resource management function and any other pre-grant assistance information sent by the network node to other communication devices connected to the network node and (ii) information received from other network nodes. The pre-grant assistance information includes a value for a future grant to the communication device per leg of the two or more legs. The method further includes transmitting to the communication device an indication including the pre-grant assistance information per leg of the two or more legs.