Passive collection of air-to-ground network parameters for network planning and control
AssigneeSmartsky Networks LLC
InventorsDavid Claassen, Douglas Hyslop
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Abstract
A network analytics control module may include processing circuitry configured to receive three dimensional location information and corresponding signal quality information for a particular asset in an air-to-ground (ATG) network, make a service quality inference for the particular asset based at least in part on the received information, and provide an instruction for a network control activity based on the service quality inference.
Claims20
A network analytics control module comprising processing circuitry configured to:
- receive three dimensional location information and corresponding signal quality information for a particular asset in an air-to-ground (ATG) network, the three dimensional location information including information indicative of a specific beam of a plurality of formable or steerable beams of the ATG network for which the corresponding signal quality information applies;
- make a service quality inference for the particular asset based at least in part on the received information;
- and
- provide an instruction for a network control activity based on the service quality inference.
A network analytics control module comprising processing circuitry configured to:
- receive three dimensional location information and corresponding signal quality information for a particular asset in an air-to-ground (ATG) network;
- make a service quality inference for the particular asset based at least in part on the received information;
- and
- provide an instruction for a network control activity based on the service quality inference,
- wherein receiving three dimensional location information and corresponding signal quality information for the particular asset comprises:
- receiving time correlated three dimensional position information indicative of aircraft locations within the ATG network;
- receiving time correlated signal strength information for the aircraft within the ATG network;
- and
- associating, based on time, the signal strength information to the three dimensional position information to define a location based performance history for the aircraft, and
- wherein making the service quality inference comprises determining that radio equipment on the aircraft is turned off over at least a predetermined number of routes flown by the aircraft.
An air-to-ground (ATG) network comprising:
- a plurality of base stations disposed at respective fixed geographic locations;
- at least one aircraft;
- a beamforming control module comprising processing circuitry configured to provide instructions to direct beam formation from an antenna array of the aircraft or one of the base stations based on three dimensional location information associated with the aircraft;
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- a network analysis control module comprising processing circuitry configured to:
- receive the three dimensional location information and corresponding signal quality information for a particular asset in the ATG network, the three dimensional location information including information indicative of a specific beam of a plurality of formable or steerable beams of the ATG network for which the corresponding signal quality information applies;
- make a service quality inference for the particular asset based at least in part on the received information;
- and
- provide an instruction for a network control activity based on the service quality inference.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.