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US 10,993,120 B1Granted
Drone-assisted deployment of wireless access infrastructure
AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.
InventorGaviphat Lekutai
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Abstract
A first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) test cell may be positioned at a first position and a second UAV test cell may be positioned at a second position. The first position and the second position may be designated as a pair of unbroken link positions in response to a line-of-sight (LOS) wireless communication link being unblocked between the first UAV test cell and the second UAV test cell. Otherwise, the first position and the second position may be designated as a pair of broken link positions in response to the LOS wireless communication link being blocked between the first UAV test cell and the second UAV test cell.
Claims16
A system, comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- memory having instructions stored therein, the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:
- positioning a first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) test cell at a first position and a second UAV test cell at a second position;
- comparing an average of multiple signal robustness values of a wireless communication link that is established between the first UAV test cell and the second UAV test cell to a wireless signal threshold value;
- and
- in response to the average the multiple signal robustness values at least meeting the wireless signal threshold value, designating one or more of the first position and the second position as one or more proposed placement positions for one or more base station antennas, wherein the one or more proposed placement positions are free of an interference from an existing antenna of the base station;
- wherein the average of multiple signal robustness values of the wireless communication link includes an average of signal strength measurements or signal quality measurements;
- wherein the average of the signal strength measurement includes a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurement, reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement, or a received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement, and wherein the signal quality measurement includes an energy to interface ratio (ECIO) measurement, a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) measurement, a signal to interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) measurement, a bit error rate (BER) measurement, a low density parity check (LDPC) measurement, a packet error rate (PER) measurement, or a received signal code power (RSCP).
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A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- positioning, via one or more unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) test stations, a first UAV test cell at a first position and a second UAV test cell at a second position;
- comparing, at a UAV test station, an average of multiple signal robustness values of a wireless communication link that is established between the first UAV test cell and the second UAV test cell to a wireless signal threshold value;
- and
- in response to the average of the multiple signal robustness values of the wireless communication link at least meeting the wireless signal threshold value, designating, via the UAV test station, one or more of the first position and the second position as one or more proposed placement positions for one or more antennas of a base station;
- wherein the one or more proposed placement positions are free of an interference from an existing antenna of the base station;
- wherein the average of multiple signal robustness values of the wireless communication link includes an average of signal strength measurements or signal quality measurements;
- wherein the average of signal strength measurement includes a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurement, reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement, or a received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement, and wherein the signal quality measurement includes an energy to interface ratio (ECIO) measurement, a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) measurement, a signal to interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) measurement, a bit error rate (BER) measurement, a low density parity check (LDPC) measurement, a packet error rate (PER) measurement, or a received signal code power (RSCP).
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One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that upon execution cause one or more processors to perform acts comprising:
- positioning, via an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) test station, a first UAV test cell at a first position and a second UAV test cell at a second position;
- comparing, at the UAV test station, a representative signal robustness value of a wireless communication link that is established between the first UAV test cell and the second UAV test cell to a wireless signal threshold value;
- and
- in response to the representative signal robustness value of the wireless communication link at least meeting the wireless signal threshold value, designating, via the UAV test station, one or more of the first position and the second position as one or more proposed placement positions for one or more antennas of a base station,
- wherein the one or more proposed placement positions are free of an interference from an existing antenna of the base station or a microwave backhaul relay;
- wherein the representative signal robustness value includes an average of signal strength measurements or signal quality measurements;
- wherein the signal strength measurement includes a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurement, reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement, or a received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement, and wherein the signal quality measurement includes an energy to interface ratio (ECIO) measurement, a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) measurement, a signal to interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) measurement, a bit error rate (BER) measurement, a low density parity check (LDPC) measurement, a packet error rate (PER) measurement, a received signal code power (RSCP) measurement, or a block error rate (BLER) measurement.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.