Accordingly, in one embodiment, RRC resident in each of the child nodes and/or UEs may perform cell selection upon receiving a notification indicating the reception of the Upstream RLF notification from lower layers. In the present embodiments, this may be performed even if the radio link to the parent node remains in good condition. The node and/or UE may then start a timer, timer Txxx (e.g., T311 specified in 3GPP TS 38.331), based on the received notification, and upon selecting a suitable cell while timer Txxx is running, the node and/or UE may stop timer Txxx and initiate transmission of RRCReestablishmentRequest to the IAB-donor.
Once the RRC connection is reestablished, the CU of the IAB-donor may update the F1-AP* configurations in Node B as well as the child IAB-node that initiated the RRC reestablishment. In the scenario where the connecting device is a UE, F1-AP* configuration updates are not needed as they do not have the F1-AP* interface. Accordingly, the updated configuration from the IAB-donor may be used to reconfigure the routing topology which was modified or changed due to the RLF.