INTERFERENCE AND MOBILITY MANAGEMENT IN UAV-ASSISTED WIRELESS NETWORKS

    公开(公告)号:US20170171761A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-06-15

    申请号:US15443147

    申请日:2017-02-27

    申请人: Ismail Guvenc

    发明人: Ismail Guvenc

    摘要: Techniques and systems are disclosed for addressing the challenges in interference and mobility management in broadband, UAV-assisted heterogeneous network (BAHN) scenarios. Implementations include BAHN control components, for example, at a controlling network node of a BAHN. Generally, a component implementing techniques for managing interference and handover in a BAHN gathers state data from network nodes or devices in the BAHN, determines a candidate BAHN model that optimizes interference and handover metrics, and determines and performs model adjustments to the network parameters, BS parameters, and UAV-assisted base station (UABS) device locations and velocities to conform to the optimized candidate BAHN model. Also described is a UABS apparatus having a UAV, communications interface for communicating with a HetNet in accordance with wireless air interface standards, and a computing device suitable for implementing BAHN control or reinforcement learning components.

    Ground terminal and UAV beam pointing in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for network access

    公开(公告)号:US09660718B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-05-23

    申请号:US15260049

    申请日:2016-09-08

    申请人: UBIQOMM LLC

    摘要: Systems and methods for detecting an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Network access (for example, to the Internet) may be provided by detecting a UAV and fixing one or more beams from one or more ground terminals to the UAV. In one embodiment, the detection of a UAV includes forming and pointing beams from a ground terminal and ground gateways toward the UAV. The ground terminal may be configured to autonomously steer its antenna beam during initial installation to detect the reference signal from a UAV. In one variant, the ground terminals are steered to more finely track the position of the UAV based on a signal quality metric such as received signal strength and the UAV real-time position location coordinates. In one embodiment, the ground terminal antenna is initially manually pointed toward the UAV, and thereafter allowed to automatically steer to track the position of the UAV. In another embodiment the UAV antenna is steered toward a ground terminal using signal quality received from the ground terminal and real-time position coordinates and orientation of the UAV.

    UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES
    80.
    发明申请
    UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES 审中-公开
    无人机动车

    公开(公告)号:US20170069214A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-03-09

    申请号:US15224497

    申请日:2016-07-29

    IPC分类号: G08G5/00 G05D1/10 B64C39/02

    摘要: Various systems, methods, for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are disclosed. In one aspect, UAVs operation in an area may be managed and organized by UAV corridors, which can be defined ways for the operation and movement of UAVs. UAV corridors may be supported by infrastructures and/or systems supported UAVs operations. Support infrastructures may include support systems such as resupply stations and landing pads. Support systems may include communication UAVs and/or stations for providing communications and/or other services, such as aerial traffic services, to UAV with limited communication capabilities. Further support systems may include flight management services for guiding UAVs with limited navigation capabilities as well as tracking and/or supporting unknown or malfunctioning UAVs.

    摘要翻译: 公开了无人机(UAV)的各种系统,方法。 一方面,无人机在一个地区的运行可以由无人机走廊进行管理和组织,这可以是无人机的操作和移动的定义方式。 UAV走廊可能受支持的基础设施和/或系统支持的无人机操作。 支持基础设施可能包括支持系统,如补给站和着陆垫。 支持系统可以包括用于向具有有限通信能力的UAV提供通信和/或其他服务(例如空中交通服务)的通信UAV和/或站。 进一步的支持系统可以包括飞行管理服务,用于引导具有有限导航能力的UAV,以及跟踪和/或支持未知或故障的UAV。