Road-side network node and method to operate the road-side network node
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsKurt Eckert, Nadia Brahmi
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Abstract
A method to operate a road-side network node in a cell-supported radio communications network and in an adhoc radio communications network is provided. The method comprises: discovering at least one further road-side network node in the vicinity of the road-side network node as a gateway node, wherein the at least one further road-side node has the capability to exchange data across the cell-supported radio communications network and the adhoc radio communications network; and exchanging data across the cell-supported radio communications network and the adhoc radio communications network in dependence on the discovered at least one further road-side network node.
Claims11
A road-side network node, the road-side network node comprising:
- a processor;
- a memory;
- a first radio module for operating in a cell-supported radio communications network;
- a second radio module for operating in an adhoc radio communications network;
- and
- at least one antenna;
- wherein the road-side network node is configured to:
- receive a first data entity from a further road-side network node via a sidelink channel of the cell-supported radio communications network;
- receive a second data entity from the further road-side network node via an adhoc channel of the adhoc radio communications network;
- determine a similarity value in dependence on the first and second data entity;
- discover the at least one further road-side network node as being a gateway node, having the capability to exchange data across the cell-supported radio communications network and the adhoc radio communications network, when the similarity value is above a threshold;
- and
- exchange data across the cell-supported radio communications network and the adhoc radio communications network in dependence on the discovered at least one further road-side network node.
A method to operate a road-side network node in a cell-supported radio communications network and in an adhoc radio communications network, the method comprising the following steps:
- receiving a first data entity from a further road-side network node via a sidelink channel of the cell-supported radio communications network;
- receiving a second data entity from the further road-side network node via an adhoc channel of the adhoc radio communications network;
- determining a similarity value in dependence on the first and second data entity;
- discovering the at least one further road-side network node as being a gateway node, having the capability to exchange data across the cell-supported radio communications network and the adhoc radio communications network, when the similarity value is above a threshold;
- and
- exchanging data across the cell-supported radio communications network and the adhoc radio communications network in dependence on the discovered at least one further road-side network node.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.