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Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 11, 2018
Applicant:

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Hideki Kanemoto, Kanagawa, JP;

Takeshi Yasunaga, Kanagawa, JP;

Ritsu Miura, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04W 4/90 (2018.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/18506 (2013.01); H04B 7/0608 (2013.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.02); H04W 4/90 (2018.02); H04W 72/046 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to the present application, a base station device is configured to manage a vertically-oriented cell and a ground cell with respective IDs used to identify each cell, to determine whether or not a counterpart terminal device is an aircraft terminal device for air-to-ground communication based on a terminal ID included in a message received therefrom, and to control communication with the counterpart terminal device such that, if the counterpart terminal device is an aircraft terminal device, the base station selects the vertically-oriented cell as a connection destination of the counterpart terminal device and transmits a connection instruction message including a cell ID of the vertically-oriented cell to the counterpart terminal device, otherwise, the base station selects the ground cell as a connection destination of the counterpart terminal device and transmits a connection instruction message including a cell ID of the ground cell to the counterpart terminal device.


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