Thus, in one configuration, a handover may be executed immediately after a configured triggering event(s) is evaluated. In another configuration, a final decision to execute the conditional handover may be made upon or after a timer (such as aforementioned Tyyy) expires, where the timer may be started upon receiving from its parent node a notification indicating an RLF (e.g. Upstream RLF Notification). The timer may stop (no handover executed) in a case that another notification indicating an RLF recovery (i.e. successful connection reestablishment) (e.g. Upstream Recovery notification) is received. The use of timers such as those mentioned above may be understood in conjunction with preceding example embodiments and modes, such as