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US 11,638,200 B2Granted
Method, apparatus, system and computer program for vehicular communication smart radio access zones
AssigneeNokia Solutions and Networks Oy
InventorsVinh Van Phan, Ling Yu, Kari Veikko Horneman
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Abstract
There is provided a method comprising determining a service coverage zone operation within a network, the network able to form a synchronised sub-network, and being associated with at least one cellular network which provides cellular access over the coverage area of the network, configuring, in dependence on the determined service coverage zone operation, a plurality of nodes of the network for providing a service coverage zone to provide at least one service, providing an indication of the service coverage zone to at least one user equipment and controlling access of the at least one user equipment to the at least one service.
Claims22
A method comprising:
- determining, by a serving cellular network, a service coverage zone operation configured to one of create or modify a vehicle-to-x communication-based service within a network formed by a plurality of road side units as instant radio access network coverage layer units, the network of the plurality of road side units:
- providing a plurality of access points between the serving cellular network and device-to-device capable cellular devices, and
- forming a synchronized sub-network of device-to-device capable cellular devices over a coverage area of the network of the plurality of road side units;
- configuring, by the serving cellular network, in dependence on the determined service coverage zone operation, at least a part of the plurality of road side units to provide a service coverage zone, within the coverage area of the network of the plurality of road side units, as the synchronized sub-network for the vehicle-to-x communication-based service;
- providing, by the serving cellular network, an indication of the service coverage zone to at least one vehicle device of the device-to-device capable cellular devices;
- and
- controlling, by the serving cellular network, access of the at least one vehicle device to the vehicle-to-x communication-based service while the at least one vehicle device is operating in the service coverage zone.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code;
- the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to:
- determine a service coverage zone operation configured to one of create or modify a vehicle-to-x communication-based service within a network formed by a plurality of road side units as instant radio access network coverage layer units, the network of the plurality of road side units:
- provide a plurality of access points between a serving cellular network and device-to-device capable cellular devices, and
- form a synchronized sub-network of device-to-device capable cellular devices over a coverage area of the network of the plurality of road side units;
- configuring in dependence on the determined service coverage zone operation, at least a part of the plurality of road side units to provide a service coverage zone, within the coverage area of the network of the plurality of road side units, as the synchronized sub-network for the vehicle-to-x communication-based service;
- provide an indication of the service coverage zone to at least one vehicle device of the device-to-device capable cellular devices;
- and
- control access of the at least one vehicle device to the vehicle-to-x communication-based service while the at least one vehicle device is operating in the service coverage zone.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, are configured to cause a computing system to:
- determine a service coverage zone operation configured to one of create or modify a vehicle-to-x communication-based service within a network formed by a plurality of road side units as instant radio access network coverage layer units, the network of the plurality of road side units:
- provide a plurality of access points between a serving cellular network and device-to-device capable cellular devices, and
- form a synchronized sub-network of device-to-device capable cellular devices over a coverage area of the network of the plurality of road side units;
- configuring in dependence on the determined service coverage zone operation, at least a part of the plurality of road side units to provide a service coverage zone, within the coverage area of the network of the plurality of road side units, as the synchronized sub-network for the vehicle-to-x communication-based service;
- provide an indication of the service coverage zone to at least one vehicle device of the device-to-device capable cellular devices;
- and
- control access of the at least one vehicle device to the vehicle-to-x communication-based service while the at least one vehicle device is operating in the service coverage zone.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.