Broadcasting geolocation information in a radio frame transmitted from an unmanned aerial vehicle

A computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processor of a network node, cause the network node to receive and rebroadcast geolocation information of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) by performing operations comprising:

• receiving geolocation information and other information associated with the UAV in a radio frame sent in an uplink transmission from the UAV utilizing 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) radio protocol, wherein the uplink transmission from the UAV is based on the UAV:
• determining current geolocation of the UAV by communicating with a geolocation service and utilizing the geolocation service to geolocate the UAV;
• preparing a radio frame that includes geolocation information identifying the current geolocation of the UAV, wherein the prepared radio frame is for the 3GPP radio protocol;
• preparing other information associated with the UAV for inclusion in the radio frame;
• determining whether other vehicles are detected, wherein in an affirmative, waypoint information is added to the other information in the radio frame;
• receiving a transmission from a second UAV, wherein a communication protocol used to receive the transmission from the second UAV is different than the 3GPP radio protocol used for transmitting the radio frame by the UAV;
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• transmitting the radio frame that includes the geolocation information and the other information, and retransmitting information contained in the transmission received from the second UAV, by including the information contained in the transmission received from the second UAV in the other information of the radio frame, wherein the transmitting the radio frame utilizes the 3GPP radio protocol to broadcast the radio frame;
• processing the received radio frame for broadcast to one or more other UAVs;
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• transmitting the geolocation information identifying the current geolocation of the UAV and the other information that includes the information contained in the transmission received from the second UAV, as a rebroadcast in a downlink transmission to the one or more other UAVs.