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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2013
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Sateesh K. Addepalli, San Jose, CA (US);
Rodolfo A. Milito, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Lillian Lei Dai, Rockville, MD (US);
Flavio Bonomi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Raghuram S. Sudhaakar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Christian Ibars Casas, Ceira (Girona), ES;
Pere Monclus, San Jose, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes joining a vehicular access network (VAN) comprising cooperative communication between a plurality of on-board units (OBU) in respective vehicles, scanning the VAN to pick up a coverage of at least one infrastructure access point (IAP), which operates on a control channel in a radio access tree (RAT) comprising a plurality of cells, listening to a channel allocation information from the IAP that includes a request for a mobile cell gateway (MCG) at a nominal location in the RAT, and sending a candidacy message to the at least one IAP to become an MCG. Certain embodiments include establishing the VAN in a highway, and in urban areas, aggregating traffic in a cell and transmitting to the IAP via the MCG, and other features.