公开(公告)号：US20170245192A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-24

申请号：US15500079

申请日：2014-08-28

Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION

Inventor： Ali S. Sadri ,  Alexander A. Maltsev ,  Vadim S. Sergeyev ,  Alexey V. Davydov

IPC: H04W36/38 ,  H04W4/04 ,  H04W16/28

CPC classification number: H04W36/38 ,  H04L65/608 ,  H04W4/046 ,  H04W16/28 ,  H04W36/0009 ,  H04W84/005 ,  H04W88/08 ,  H04W88/12

Abstract: Embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of communicating with a vehicle (102) along a transportation route (104). For example, a system may include a plurality of access points (APs) (120) along the transportation route, an AP of the plurality of APs including a directional antenna (123) to communicate with the vehicle moving along the transportation route via a directional link (127); and at least one AP manager (132) to control handover of the vehicle between the plurality of APs. Communicating with the vehicle may include switching a directional antenna of an AP of the plurality of APs between a plurality of beam settings to steer the directional antenna towards a respective plurality of coverage areas of the transportation route. For example, AP (128) may switch directional antenna (123) between the plurality of beam settings to steer directional antenna (123) towards the respective plurality of coverage areas of transportation route (104). For example, controller (136) may handover vehicle (102) between the plurality of APs (120) according to the order of the plurality of segments (110). Alternatively, controller (136) may handover vehicle (102) from AP (122) to AP (124) based on the quality of communication between AP (122) and vehicle (102). Moreover, controller (136) may handover vehicle (102) from AP (126) to AP (128), when vehicle (102) moves from segment 116 to segment (118).