3GPP 38.311 NR Radio Resource Control (RRC) protocol specification

1. UE states and state transitions

If an RRC connection has been established, UE is either in RRC_CONNECTED state or in RRC_INACTIVE state.
If no RRC connection is established, UR is in RRC_IDLE state.

Figure 1.1: UE state machine and state transitions in NR (38.331)

Figure 1.2: UE state machine and state transitions between NR/5GC, E-UTRA/EPC and E-UTRA/5GC (38.331)

2. UE capabilities

Figure 2.1: UE capability transfer

Reference

3GPP TS 38.331 V17.2.0 (2022-09)