In some implementations, a source base station may receive, from a user equipment (UE), a report indicating a physical cell identifier (PCI) of a target cell provided by a target base station. The source base station may send, to the UE, a request for a globally unique identifier of the target cell based on the PCI of the target cell being associated with a range of PCIs associated with small cell base stations. The source base station may receive, from the UE, the globally unique identifier of the target cell based on the request. The source base station may initiate, based on the PCI and the globally unique identifier of the target cell, a handover of the UE from a source cell provided by the source base station to the target cell provided by the target base station.