US 12,640,489 B2 · Metasurface integrated non-terrestrial network transcoder with adaptive slicing for dynamic allocation of mesh resources

Abstract

The technology described herein is directed towards a transcoder with bypass capabilities that can be used to couple non-terrestrial network satellites to user equipment (UEs), including by decoding and reencoding data packets at the packet level for existing Satcom satellites. A metasurface redirects signals from the satellite to a satellite radio frequency (RF) interface of the transcoder, with the transcoder also coupled by a UE RF interface to a UE, such as a computing device or cellphone. Dynamically slicing (subdividing) a metasurface associated with a transcoder node facilitates using part of the metasurface for UE or satellite communications, and another part to facilitate a mesh network among transcoder nodes, which helps with data privacy. The slicing can be adaptively performed based on learning and artificial intelligence models implemented into the transcoder nodes as edge computing devices. The transcoder can convert Satcom signals to and from new radio signals.

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Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

at least one processor;
and
at least one memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
obtaining first information corresponding to a first communication link between a user equipment and a first metasurface associated with a first node of a mesh network;
obtaining second information corresponding to a second communication link between a satellite and a second metasurface associated with a second node of the mesh network;
and
based on the first information and the second information, subdividing the first metasurface into a first portion for communication between the first node and the user equipment via the first portion, subdividing the first metasurface into a second portion for communication between the first node and the second node via the second portion, subdividing the second metasurface into a third portion for communication between the second node and the satellite, and subdividing the second metasurface into a fourth portion for communication between the second node and the first node.

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A method comprising,

obtaining, by a system comprising at least one processor and at least one trained model of a mesh network, current state data representative of a current state of the mesh network;
and
based on the current state data,
configuring, by the system, first dimensions of a first portion of a first reconfigurable intelligent surface, associated with a first node of the mesh network, relative to second dimensions of a second portion of the first reconfigurable intelligent surface, wherein the first portion is used for first communication between the first node and a user equipment, and wherein the second portion is used for second communication between the first node and a second node of the mesh network;
configuring, by the system, third dimensions of a third portion of a second reconfigurable intelligent surface, associated with the second node of the mesh network, relative to fourth dimensions of a fourth portion of the second reconfigurable intelligent surface, wherein the third portion is used for third communication between the second node and a satellite, and wherein the fourth portion is used for fourth communication between the second node and the first node.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Metasurface integrated non-terrestrial network transcoder with adaptive slicing for dynamic allocation of mesh resources

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Metasurface integrated non-terrestrial network transcoder with adaptive slicing for dynamic allocation of mesh resources

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Abstract

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