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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018
Filed:
May. 30, 2017
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
A handover method and a control transfer method are provided. A handover method of performing an inter-cell handover between a first ground station and a second ground station may include setting a first channel to the second ground station, measuring, by an airborne radio station, a second channel and reporting a measurement result to the first ground station, sending, by the first ground station, a handover request to at least one of a ground control station (GCS) or a control and non-payload communication (CNPC) network, determining, by the at least one of the GCS or the CNPC network, whether to perform a handover, and transmitting, by the at least one of the GCS or the CNPC network, a handover instruction to the airborne radio station based on a result of the determining.