Determining coverage availability estimates of mobile non-terrestrial access node
AssigneeNokia Technologies Oy
InventorsMads Lauridsen, Jeroen Wigard, Istvan Zsolt Kovacs, Rafhael Amorim
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Abstract
There is provided determining an availability of a connection to a mobile non-terrestrial access node of a wireless communication system, determining, at the wireless device, coverage availability estimates of the mobile non-terrestrial access node, and determining at the wireless device, if the determined coverage availability estimates indicate a periodic coverage of the mobile non-terrestrial access node, a power save mode or one or more connection attempts to the mobile non-terrestrial access node, on the basis of a time period according to a periodicity of the determined coverage availability estimates.
Claims16
A wireless device comprising:
- circuitry configured to determine, at the wireless device, an availability of a connection to a mobile non-terrestrial access node of a wireless communication system;
- circuitry configured to determine, at the wireless device, coverage availability estimates associated with geographical locations of the mobile non-terrestrial access node, wherein the coverage availability estimates are determined based, at least partially, on one or more measurements, made with the wireless device, of at least one of:
- signal strength, or a signal quality, of the mobile non-terrestrial access node;
- circuitry configured to determine, at the wireless device, whether the determined coverage availability estimates indicate a periodic coverage of the mobile non-terrestrial access node;
- and
- circuitry configured, in response to determining whether the determined coverage availability estimates indicate the periodic coverage of the mobile non-terrestrial access node, to cause the wireless device to one of:
- enter a power save mode, or
- control one or more connection attempts to the mobile non-terrestrial access node,
- on the basis of a time period according to a periodicity of the determined coverage availability estimates.
A method comprising:
- determining, at a wireless device, an availability of a connection to a mobile non-terrestrial access node of a wireless communication system;
- determining, at the wireless device, coverage availability estimates associated with geographical locations of the mobile non-terrestrial access node, wherein the coverage availability estimates are determined based, at least partially, on one or more measurements, made with the wireless device, of at least one of:
- signal strength, or a signal quality, of the mobile non-terrestrial access node;
- determining, at the wireless device, whether the determined coverage availability estimates indicate a periodic coverage of the mobile non-terrestrial access node;
- and
- in response to determining whether the determined coverage availability estimates indicate the periodic coverage of the mobile non-terrestrial access node, causing the wireless device to one of:
- enter a power save mode, or
- control one or more connection attempts to the mobile non-terrestrial access node,
- on the basis of a time period according to a periodicity of the determined coverage availability estimates.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.