Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Peter Brockmann

Jerry Gamble, Jr

Natasha Avinash Shah

Syed B Aziz

Soumyadeep Pan

Aleena Taufiq

One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for elevation tracking of devices are provided. Barometric pressure data points and elevation data points associated with a set of barometric measurement devices proximate a device are obtained. An interpolated field of barometric pressure is generated using the barometric pressure data points and the elevation data points. x, y location coordinates of the device are projected onto the interpolated field as a projected point within the interpolated field. Barometric leveling is executed upon a device barometric pressure value provided by the device and a barometric pressure data point at the projected point to determine a relative height difference between the device and the projected point. An elevation of the device is determined based upon the relative height difference.

Systems and methods for elevation tracking of devices

A system described herein may provide for the selection of a cell of a wireless telecommunications network to which a User Equipment ('UE') should connect. The UE may receive radio frequency ('RF') signals from a group of cells (e.g., implemented by Radio Units (&#x201c;RUs&#x201d;)) of a radio access network (&#x201c;RAN&#x201d;), and may determine signal strengths or measures of channel quality associated with the RF signals. For example, the UE may determine a rate of change of signal strengths over time associated with each cell, a differential rate of change, or some other value, and may select the cell based on the respective rates of change. For example, the UE may select a particular cell which exhibits the lowest differential rate of change of signal strengths over time. A particular cell may be implemented, for example, by a mobile RU mounted on a vehicle that maintains relatively close proximity to UE.

Systems and methods for selectively connecting to distributed units ('DUs') in a wireless network based on rates of change of signal strengths of candidate DUs

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