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Patent No.:

US 11337116 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 21, 2015

Seamless replacement of a first drone base station with a second drone base station

Applicant:

Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne Billancourt, FR;

Inventors:

Osman Aydin, Stuttgart, DE;

Ilaria Malanchini, Stuttgart, DE;

Jens Gebert, Stuttgart, DE;

Assignee:

Alcatel Lucent, Nozay, FR;

Attorney:

Fay Sharpe LLP

Primary Examiner:

Robert C Scheibel

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G08G 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 61/5007 (2022.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 84/06 (2009.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/0009 (2018.08); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); G05D 1/0022 (2013.01); G05D 1/0027 (2013.01); G05D 1/0202 (2013.01); G08G 5/0013 (2013.01); G08G 5/0043 (2013.01); H04B 7/18504 (2013.01); H04L 5/005 (2013.01); H04L 61/2007 (2013.01); H04W 36/0055 (2013.01); H04W 36/0058 (2018.08); H04W 36/0069 (2018.08); H04W 72/042 (2013.01); H04W 72/0413 (2013.01); B64C 2201/122 (2013.01); B64C 2201/143 (2013.01); H04W 84/06 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method is provided of replacing a first drone base station with a second drone base station, the first drone base station, the method comprising: sending by the first drone base station first pilot signals indicating a cell identifier; receiving by the first drone base station information that the second drone base station is in the vicinity of the first drone base station; sending by the second drone base station second pilot signals which indicate the same cell identifier as the first drone base station; receiving by the first drone base station from the second drone base station an indication to cease to send first pilot signals; and dependent upon receiving by the first drone base station from the second drone base station the indication to cease to send first pilot signals, ceasing by the first drone base station the sending of first pilot signals.

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