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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2005
Joseph M. Cruz, Naperville, IL (US);
Ivica Kostanic, Palm Bay, FL (US);
Harold Grant Saroka, Ashburn, VA (US);
Anand K. Chari, Bartlett, IL (US);
Joseph M. Cruz, Naperville, IL (US);
Ivica Kostanic, Palm Bay, FL (US);
Harold Grant Saroka, Ashburn, VA (US);
Anand K. Chari, Bartlett, IL (US);
AirCell, LLC, Louisville, CO (US);
Abstract
The air-to-ground cellular network for deck-to-deck call coverage provides call coverage to customers who are located in aircraft that are flying within the arrival/departure airspace of an airport by trifurcating the spatial coverage regions or volumes of space to solve the problems of inter-network interference while yielding air-to-ground cellular network coverage at any altitude. Three types of cells are considered: an Outer Cell, an Inner Cell and an Airport Cell. The Outer Cell is a macro cell covering a large volume of space and is one of many cells in the composite air-to-ground cellular network. The Inner Cell is created within an Outer Cell and has at its center an airport. The Airport Cell is a part of the Terrestrial Cellular Network (TCN), created by the present terrestrial cellular operators or service providers.