Integrated access and backhaul from high altitude platforms
AssigneeLoon LLC
InventorsSharath Ananth, Brian Barritt
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Abstract
A method is for establishing one or more links for an integrated access and backhaul for millimeter wave network. The network includes a high-altitude platform (HAP) as a first node and a terrestrial node as a second node. The method includes obtaining location information of the HAP in the network, determining that the HAP can be used to provide an additional access link or an additional backhaul link in the network in connection with the terrestrial node, controlling one or more transceivers of the terrestrial node to point towards the HAP according to the location information, and establishing the additional access link or the additional backhaul link between the HAP and the terrestrial node.
Claims24
A method of establishing one or more links for an integrated access and backhaul for a network, the network including a high-altitude platform (HAP) node and a terrestrial node, the method comprising:
- determining, by one or more processors of the HAP node, that the HAP node can be used to provide at least one of an additional access link or an additional backhaul link in the network in connection with the terrestrial node, wherein the one or more processors of the HAP node are configured to operate according to a given protocol architecture including a control plane layer and a user plane layer;
- in response to the determining, controlling, by the one or more processors of the HAP node, one or more transceivers of the terrestrial node to transmit signals toward the HAP node according to physical location information of the HAP node, the signals including instructions for implementing at least one protocol associated with at least one of the control plane layer or the user plane layer;
- receiving, by the one or more processors of the HAP node, the signals;
- and
- in response to the receiving, establishing, by the one or more processors of the HAP node, the at least one of the additional access link or the additional backhaul link between the HAP node and the terrestrial node by implementing the at least one protocol.
A non-transitory, computer-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a high-altitude platform (HAP) node, cause the one or more processors to perform a method, the method comprising:
- determining that the HAP node can be used to provide at least one of an additional access link or an additional backhaul link in a network in connection with a terrestrial node of the network, wherein the one or more processors of the HAP node are configured to operate according to a given protocol architecture including a control plane layer and a user plane layer;
- in response to the determining, causing one or more transceivers of the terrestrial node to transmit signals toward the HAP node according to physical location information of the HAP node, the signals including instructions for implementing at least one protocol associated with at least one of the control plane layer or the user plane layer;
- receiving the signals;
- and
- in response to the receiving, causing the at least one of the additional access link or the additional backhaul link to be established between the HAP node and the terrestrial node by implementing the at least one protocol.
A high-altitude platform (HAP) node comprising:
- one or more transceivers;
- and
- one or more processors of the HAP node, wherein the one or more processors are configured to:
- make a determination that the HAP node can be used to provide at least one of an additional access link or an additional backhaul link in a network including the HAP node and a terrestrial node, wherein the one or more processors of the HAP node are configured to operate according to a given protocol architecture including a control plane layer and a user plane layer;
- in response to the determination, control one or more transceivers of the terrestrial node to transmit signals toward the HAP node according to physical location information of the HAP node, the signals including instructions for implementing at least one protocol associated with at least one of the control plane layer or the user plane layer;
- receive the signals;
- and
- in response to received signals, establish the at least one of the additional access link or the additional backhaul link between the HAP node and the terrestrial node by implementing the at least one protocol.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.