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Heikki Mahkonen

Ravi Manghirmalani

Meral Shirazipour

Attila Takács

Ming Xia

Wassim Michel Haddad

Tero Kauppinen

Petri Jokela

Teemu Rinta-Aho

Martti Kuparinen

Havish Koorapaty

Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Xingqin Lin

Joel Halpern

Jan Melén

Veronica Sanchez Vega

Racha Ben Ali

Issa Al-Fanek

Jari Arkko

James Kempf

Jaime Jiménez

Zoltán Turányi

Ramesh Subrahmaniam

Christian Gotare

Fredrik Garneij

Tony Jokikyyny

Broadcasting geolocation information of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) from the UAV by determining current geolocation of the UAV by communicating with a geolocation service and utilizing the geolocation service to geolocate the UAV. Then the UAV prepares a radio frame that includes geolocation information identifying the current geolocation of the UAV and other information associated with the UAV using a radio protocol of one of a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) radio protocol, a WiFi radio protocol, a wireless personal area network protocol and a low-power wide-area network protocol and transmits the radio frame to broadcast the current geolocation of the UAV.

Broadcasting geolocation information in a radio frame transmitted from an unmanned aerial vehicle

A method by one or more network devices for determining parameter values for a base station of a cellular network operating in a wireless band that is shared with one or more wireless access points. The parameter values are determined to optimize network performance in a manner that allows for fair coexistence between the base station and the one or more wireless access points. The method includes determining, using a machine learning system, parameter values for the base station based on proximity information and activity information for the one or more wireless access points, causing the base station to be configured with the parameter values, determining a measure of how configuring the base station with the parameter values affected network performance based on comparing the level of network performance before and after the base station was configured with the parameter values, and training the machine learning system using the measure.

Monitor and predict Wi-Fi utilization patterns for dynamic optimization of the operating parameters of nearby ENBS using the same unlicensed spectrum

A method for controlling an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is described. The method includes receiving an enhanced flight plan, wherein the enhanced flight plan includes one or more predefined points and each of the predefined points is associated with a set of conditions and a set of locations; storing the one or more predefined points in the UAV; flying the UAV according to the enhanced flight plan; detecting, by the UAV, a condition associated with a predefined point in the one or more predefined points stored in the UAV; and adjusting, autonomously by the UAV and in response to detecting the condition, a flight of the UAV using a set of locations associated with the predefined point and associated with the detected condition.

Enhanced flight plan for unmanned traffic aircraft systems

Methods and systems for implementing a distributed blockchain transaction processing element in a data center are described. A call to a function is received. The call for the function is dispatched to a first runtime environment of a first server. Code is fetched from the blockchain database. The code is executed in the first runtime environment resulting in a blockchain transaction. A copy of the blockchain transaction is written in a storage medium that is locally accessible by the first server. The blockchain transaction is added to a first block. A consensus mechanism is used to determine whether the first block is to be added to the blockchain database; and responsive to determining that the first block is to be added to the blockchain database, the first block is caused to be stored in a persistent storage as part of the blockchain database.

Method and apparatus for implementing a distributed blockchain transaction processing element in a datacenter

A method for managing connections between an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and one or more associated UAV devices is described. The method includes determining, by a radio control management service, that one or more associated UAV devices are attached to a wireless network; determining, by the radio control management service, that one or more UAVs are attached to the wireless network; and routing, by the radio control management service in response to determining that the one or more associated UAV devices and one or more UAVs are attached to the network, at least one of (1) communications from at least one of the one or more UAVs to at least one of the one or more associated UAV devices and (2) communications from at least one of the one or more associated UAV devices to at least one of the one or more UAVs.

Using a cellular interface for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle communications

A method for managing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is described. The method may include receiving flight information describing a flight plan for the UAV; determining, based on the flight information, quality-of-service requirements for accomplishing the flight plan; transmitting, toward a policy and charging control system that manages a wireless network, a reservation request for reserving resources in the wireless network to achieve the quality-of-service requirements; receiving, from the policy and charging control system, a response to the reservation request; and determining a status of the flight plan based on the response from the policy and charging control system.

Optimal unmanned aerial vehicle flight route planning based on quality-of-service requirements for data, telemetry, and command and control requirements in 3GPP networks

A method for managing a wireless connection of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is described herein. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving flight information describing a flight path for the UAV; determining a set of network resources for the UAV based on the flight information; and reserving the set of network resources by a first network cell and a second network cell of a wireless network based on the flight information.

Optimization of radio resource allocation based on unmanned aerial vehicle flight path information

A method for managing an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is described. The method includes receiving a flight plan that describes a proposed flight mission of the UAV in an airspace; adding one or more predefined points to the flight plan to create an enhanced flight plan, wherein each of the predefined points is associated with a set of conditions and a set of locations; and transmitting the enhanced flight plan to the UAV for storage of the predefined points on the UAV while the UAV carries out the proposed flight mission.

A method for managing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is described. The method may include transmitting a request to monitor a location of the UAV to a location services system provided by a network operator that provides location information of the UAV based on wireless communications of the UAV in a network operated by the network operator, wherein the request to monitor the location of the UAV indicates an area of interest; receiving, from the location services system, a message that indicates a current location of the UAV as a result of the location services system detecting the UAV in the area of interest; and causing one or more remedial actions to be performed responsive to receipt of the message.

Methods and systems for using network location services in a unmanned aircraft systems traffic management framework

A method for managing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is described. The method may include receiving flight plan information describing a flight path of the UAV; generating one or more cell lists based on the flight plan information; and transmitting the one or more cell lists to a source cell in a wireless network in which the UAV is currently operating, wherein the one or more cell lists are used in a handover procedure between the source cell that the UAV is currently connected to and a target cell that the UAV will connect to after completing the handover procedure.

Methods and systems for using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight path to coordinate an enhanced handover in 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) networks

A method is implemented by a network device for determining parameter values for a base station of a cellular network. The base station operates in a wireless band that is shared with one or more wireless access points. The parameter values are determined to optimize network performance while ensuring fair coexistence between the base station and the one or more wireless access points. The method includes obtaining proximity information for the one or more wireless access points relative to the base station, obtaining activity information for the one or more wireless access points, and determining parameter values for the base station based on the proximity information and the activity information.

A method for managing a wireless connection of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is described herein. The method may include detecting a handover condition for the UAV within a wireless network, wherein the UAV is connected to a source cell in the wireless network when the handover condition is detected; determining, in response to detecting the handover condition, a target cell in the wireless network based on a flight path of the UAV; and initiating a handover of the UAV from the source cell to the target cell.

Planned continuity of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) link connectivity in UAV traffic management systems

A method and system to improve datacenter security by configuring a security layer as a set of nano-services that are executed to service a single tenant of the datacenter such that the nano-service protects the single tenant from other entities in the datacenter and the nano-service being compromised does not compromise the security of other tenants of the datacenter. The method includes receiving a request to instantiate a virtual resource for a tenant, generating a nano-service to implement at least one security layer function for the virtual resource, and connecting the nano-service to the virtual resource and a virtual bridge in the datacenter to enable communication between the virtual resource (vR) and a network of the datacenter with the security layer function processing traffic between the virtual resource and the virtual bridge. The nano-service can be immutable once it begins execution. The security layer function can be an L2 or L3 function.

Using nano-services to secure multi-tenant networking in datacenters

A method is executed by a computing device to receive a request for a server via a known network access type, from a known application type, by a known user, or a known policy, instantiate a new unikernel with a differentiated communication protocol stack instance, in response to determining the request is not being serviced by a previously instantiated unikernel, and service the request by a previously instantiated unikernel, in response to determining the previously instantiated unikernel is available, where the new unikernel and the previously instantiated unikernel are separate from an operating system of the computing device.

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Heikki Mahkonen