System and method for boosting power of synchronization signals for aerial cells

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• analyzing traffic-related information for one or more terrestrial cells and for one or more aerial cells that have been deployed to offload traffic from the one or more terrestrial cells;
• determining that traffic has been offloaded from the one or more terrestrial cells to the one or more aerial cells based on the analyzing;
• responsive to the determining, commanding the one or more aerial cells to increase synchronization signal block (SSB) power;
• after the commanding, analyzing additional traffic-related information for the one or more terrestrial cells and the one or more aerial cells;
• identifying that additional traffic has been offloaded from the one or more terrestrial cells to the one or more aerial cells based on the analyzing the additional traffic-related information;
• and
• commanding the one or more aerial cells to further increase the SSB power based on the identifying.

A method, comprising:

• transmitting, by a processing system of a drone including a processor, network-related information to a core network system, wherein the drone has been deployed to provide an aerial cell to offload traffic from a terrestrial base station;
• after the providing, receiving, by the processing system, a command from the core network system to boost power of synchronization signals;
• responsive to the receiving the command, boosting, by the processing system, the power of the synchronization signals and outputting, by the processing system, the synchronization signals;
• and
• after the boosting and the outputting, participating, by the processing system, in handovers of one or more user equipments (UEs) located within a threshold distance from the drone proximate to an edge of the aerial cell, wherein the participating is responsive to the one or more UEs synchronizing with the aerial cell in frequency and time due to the boosting of the power of the synchronization signals.