Power management for vehicle-mounted base station

A method for dynamic power management of an in-vehicle base station, comprising:

• monitoring, at an in-vehicle base station, a vehicle controller area network (CAN) bus of a vehicle for power-related messages via a connection to the CAN bus;
• monitoring, at the in-vehicle base station, a positioning sensor to determine a location of the vehicle;
• monitoring, at the in-vehicle base station, a voltage of an electrical circuit in the vehicle to determine a power management state of the vehicle via an electrical connection to the electrical circuit in the vehicle;
• and
• conducting, at the in-vehicle base station, an orderly shutdown of radio frequency services for mobile devices attached to a radio access network via the in-vehicle base station based on the power-related messages, the location of the vehicle, and the power management state of the vehicle.

A method for bringup of an in-vehicle base station, comprising:

• powering on an in-vehicle base station in a vehicle;
• identifying, at the in-vehicle base station, a power management state of the vehicle;
• searching, at the in-vehicle base station, for mesh nodes to provide a connection for the base station;
• activating, at the in-vehicle base station, a Long Term Evolution (LTE) user equipment (UE) electrically coupled to the base station;
• attempting, at the in-vehicle base station, to connect to an LTE network using the LTE UE;
• applying, at the in-vehicle base station, a configuration from a mesh node, an LTE network, or a radio frequency environment discovered by the UE;
• and
• based on the applied configuration and based on the power management state of the vehicle, determining at the in-vehicle base station whether to activate a radio access network to permit mobile devices to connect to the LTE network.