Sprint Spectrum L.p.

At&t Technical Services Company, Inc.

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

Sprint Communications Comapny L.p.

Clearwire IP Holdings L.l.c.

At&t Mobility Ii LLC

At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p.

T-mobile Innovations LLC

Clear Wireless LLC

Spring Spectrum L.p.

At&t Technical Services Conipany, Inc.

Daniel Vivanco

Krishna Sitaram

Slawomir Mikolaj Stawiarski

Hemanth Balaji Pawar

David Ross Beppler

Chunmei Liu

Yu Zhou

Shahzada Basharat Rasool

Muhammad Ahsan Naim

Esmael Hejazi Dinan

Howard Bishop Anderson

Vijay Rudraraju

Thomas W Henderson

Aik Chindapol

Mark Stockert

Kyounghwan Lee

Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas

Shilpa Srinivas Kowdley

Kurt Donald Huber

Julius Fodje

Arthur Richard Brisebois

Shilpa Kowdley Srivinas

Diego Estrella Chavez

Linda Baughman

Pamela Stuckman

Harold Kackley

Margaret Mayne

Chunmei Lu

Saravana Velusamy

Wenge Chen

Tyann Lavender

Kevin Hart

Gila Ghavami

Karan Raj Sachdev

Vijendrakumar Ashiwal

Hermanth B Pawar

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving information regarding an aerial UE that is communicatively coupled with a network node, obtaining data associated with the network node that correlates altitude values with signal quality levels and/or probabilities of connectivity disruption, determining a conservative height threshold and an aggressive height threshold for the network node based on the data, wherein the conservative threshold is lower than the aggressive threshold, analyzing the information regarding the aerial UE, based on the analyzing, selecting either the conservative threshold or the aggressive threshold for the network node to use for the aerial UE, resulting in a selected height threshold, wherein the selected height threshold affects a frequency or likelihood of height-based trigger events for the aerial UE, and causing the network node to include the selected threshold in height-based measurement report settings for the aerial UE. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Systems and methods for customizing height-based measurement report settings for aerial user equipment (UEs)

The technologies described herein are generally directed to providing, based on a paging message, radio resources to facilitate a transition to active mode by idle user equipment in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. An example method can include identifying an idle mode activation message. The method can further include, based on the activation message, predicting that the user device is going to request an active connection. Further, the method can include prioritizing allocation of antenna resources to the user device over different user devices in an idle state, based on a prediction that the user device will transition to an active state before the different user devices. Further, the method can include, based on the prioritizing, directing a base station to cause a beamformed signal to a predicted location of the user device to accept the active connection.

Facilitating transition to active mode by an idle device based on an activation request

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, providing instructions to an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), via a serving base station, to collect target height thresholds of target base stations. The UAV receives the target height thresholds from the target base stations, and transmits the target height thresholds to a network device, via the serving base station. Further embodiments can include determining a current height of the UAV exceeds a serving height threshold of the serving base station, selecting a first target base station from the target base stations based on the determination and a first target height threshold of the group of target height thresholds of the first target base station, and providing instructions to the serving base station to perform handover of the UAV from the serving base station to the first target base station based on the selection. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Methods, systems, and devices for broadcasting height-based threshold of base stations for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over mobile networks

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, providing, over a mobile network, first instructions to a first serving base station to indicate to a first communication device communicatively coupled to the first serving base station to obtain a beam bitmap of a group of base stations in proximity to the first serving base station. Further embodiments can include receiving, over the mobile network, the beam bitmap from the first serving base station, and determining a beam density for each of the group of base stations. Additional embodiments can include adjusting a neighbor list to include the beam density for each of the group of base stations resulting in an adjusted neighbor list. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Methods, systems, and devices for enhancing neighbor lists for mobile networks using beamforming

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, over a communication network, a measurement report from each of group of communication devices associated with a mobile network resulting in a group of measurement reports, and determining a first communication device of the group of communication devices requests a handover from a serving base station to another base station. Further embodiments can include selecting a receiving base station from a group of base stations based on the group of measurement reports, and providing instructions to the serving base station to handover the first communication device to the receiving base station. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Methods, systems, and devices for load balancing over a mobile network using beamforming

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first extended cell global identifier (ECGI) of an aerial base station (ABS), determining a location of the ABS, and determining that a terrestrial base station (TBS) is within a distance threshold of the location of the ABS. Further embodiments include providing the first ECGI of the ABS to the TBS, and providing instructions to the TBS to obtain an ECGI from each terrestrial communication device (TCD) communicatively coupled to the TBS. Each of the TCDs obtain the ECGI for each neighboring base station. The TCDs provide the ECGIs to the TBS. Additional embodiments include configuring a neighboring list with the ECGIs of the neighboring base stations, and providing instructions to the TBS to identify as high priority a second ECGI of the ABS within the neighboring list based on the first ECGI of the ABS. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Methods, systems, and devices for identifying an aerial base station in mobile networks

The disclosed technology is directed towards user equipment requests for delivery of other system information block (SIB) data from a base station, in which one or more repetitions of the other SIB data transmissions can be requested in a single request. Transmitting repeated response messages reduces the need for the user equipment to retry the requesting procedure when errors occur with respect to correctly receiving a single instance of the other SIB data. The user equipment can measure signal quality and obtain reported signal quality by the base station. The user equipment determines repetition data, based on the signal quality difference, for delivery of the other SIB data. The request sent by the user equipment includes the repetition data, whereby the base station repeats the transmission of instances of the other SIB data to increase the likelihood that an instance will be correctly received and decoded by the user equipment.

Repeating system information messages delivery in advanced networks

An architecture to provide uplink power control adjustment for aerial user equipment. A method can comprise receiving report data from serving cell equipment, wherein the report data comprises an adjustment in a transmission gain value initiated by the serving cell equipment, based on the adjustment in the transmission gain value, sending, via the serving cell equipment, paging message data to a group of aerial user equipment, and based on the paging message data, instructing the group of aerial user equipment to read newly broadcast signaling messages from serving cell and update their own uplink power control mechanism.

Uplink power control adjustment for aerial user equipment serviced by terrestrial based advanced network equipment

The technologies described herein are generally directed to providing radio resources to facilitate a predicted transition to active mode by idle user equipment in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. An example method can include predicting that a user equipment of a group of user equipment in an idle mode will transition to an active mode after passage of a time duration, starting from the predicting, that is lower than a time threshold. The method can further include identifying base station equipment that is able to provide coverage to the user equipment during the passage of the time duration before the user equipment transitions to the active mode. Further, the method can include prioritizing allocation of, within the group of user equipment, an antenna resource of the base station equipment to provide the coverage to facilitate an active mode connection by the user equipment to the base station equipment.

Allocating radio resources to idle user equipment that was predicted to transition to active mode

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a communication device communicatively coupled to a serving base station, requesting a device type associated with the communication device from the serving base station, and determining the communication device comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle based on the device type. Further embodiments can include obtaining a geolocation of the communication device based on the communication device comprising the unmanned aerial vehicle, generating a customized radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message, which includes a reportCGI object that involves setting a discontinuous sleep state timer, which stops the data transmission and reception of the communication device with the serving base station. During this discontinuous sleep state timer, the communication device disconnects to its serving base station to read and decode the ECGI of base station associated with neighboring cells. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Methods, systems and devices for dynamically detecting cells for unmanned aerial vehicles over mobile networks

An architecture for controlling the coverage range of serving cell equipment servicing UAVs over advanced networks. A method can comprise receiving channel quality indicator values representing a channel quality experienced by aerial user equipment, based on the channel quality indicator value, determining that the channel quality being experienced by the aerial user equipment is less than a low signal quality threshold value, based on channel quality indicator value falling below the low signal quality threshold value, determining that the aerial user equipment is located at a edge portion of a broadcast coverage area cast by the serving cell equipment, and based on determining that the aerial user equipment is located at the edge portion of the broadcast coverage area, instructing the serving cell equipment to set a transmission gain value associated with the serving cell equipment to a maximum value.

Controlling coverage range for serving cell equipment servicing aerial user equipment over advanced networks

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first E-UTRAN cell global identifier (ECGI) associated with an aerial base station (ABS), determining a location of the ABS, and determining that a terrestrial base station (TBS) is within a distance threshold of the location of the ABS. Further embodiments include providing the first ECGI of the ABS to the TBS, and providing instructions to the TBS to indicate to each terrestrial communication devices (TCDs) communicatively coupled to the TBS to add a cell individual offset (CIO) factor to a first signal strength associated with a first signal received from the ABS. The TBS provides instructions to each of the TCDs to add a CIO factor to the first signal strength associated with the first signal received from the ABS. The second instructions includes the first ECGI associated with the ABS. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Methods, systems, and devices for offloading data traffic to an aerial base station in mobile networks

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, deploying UAVs to a geographic area based on a need to offload traffic from a terrestrial base station, instructing the base station to enforce a UE served by the base station to determine a DoA of a received pilot signal emitted from each neighboring cell and to provide determined DoAs in a measurement report to the base station, obtaining the report from the base station, wherein the report includes DoA information for a plurality of neighboring cells, analyzing the DoA information to determine, for each neighboring cell of the plurality of neighboring cells, a probability of that neighboring cell being an aerial cell, resulting in determined probabilities, and controlling an ability of the base station to perform a handover of the UE to one or more of the plurality of neighboring cells based on the probabilities. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Identifying aerial cells of a network based on direction of arrival (DOA)

An architecture to dynamically create fifth generation technology based geofences around defined areas to ensure the safe operation of user equipment (UE). A method can comprise determining that first serving cell equipment is servicing an aerial user equipment determining that the first serving cell equipment has enabled beamforming, determining that a first beam of a group of beams is being used to service the aerial user equipment, determining a second beam of the group of beams that the first serving cell equipment will use to service to the aerial user equipment, determining that a handover event from the first serving cell equipment to a second serving cell equipment will occur, and causing the first serving cell equipment to adjust an emitted power level associated with the second beam.

Fifth generation geofencing for user equipment

An architecture related to advanced networking equipment providing aerial coverage data to unmanned aerial vehicles. A method can comprise based on object data, determining a number value associated with a group of beams configured to be emitted by serving cell equipment, based on down tilt data, determining a beam of the group of beams, and based on the object data and the down tilt data, determining that the serving cell equipment is capable of servicing an unmanned aerial vehicle.

Detecting aerial coverage using advanced networking equipment

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