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Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026

Filed:

Oct. 11, 2022
Applicant:

At&t Technical Services Company, Inc., Vienna, VA (US);

Inventor:

Daniel Vivanco, Ashburn, VA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 16/18 (2009.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/0284 (2013.01); H04W 16/18 (2013.01); H04W 28/0242 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining network-related information for a terrestrial cell and for an aerial cell that has been deployed to offload traffic from the terrestrial cell, determining whether traffic has been offloaded from the terrestrial cell to the aerial cell based on the network-related information obtained over time, responsive to a determination that traffic has been offloaded, determining whether a current load on the terrestrial cell satisfies a threshold, responsive to a determination that the current load satisfies the threshold, instructing the aerial cell to enable boosting of synchronization signal power, obtaining additional network-related information for the terrestrial cell and the aerial cell, identifying whether additional traffic has been offloaded from the terrestrial cell to the aerial cell based on the additional network-related information, and performing action(s) to increase or decrease the synchronization signal power based on the identifying. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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