Geospatial UAV mobility management
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsPankaj Thorat, Praveen Jayachandran
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Abstract
A computer system, computer readable storage medium, and computer-implemented method for enhancing geospatial mobility management of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The method includes generating a mapping between a UAV designator and a plurality of geospatial region designators. The method also includes instantiating a network slice. The network slice is associated with the UAV designator and the plurality of geospatial region designators. The method further includes generating a flight path for a UAV through a plurality of geospatial regions that is at partially determined subject to the network slice and the plurality of geospatial region designators. The method also includes executing a transit of the UAV through the flight path.
Claims20
A computer system for enhancing geospatial mobility management of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), comprising:
- one or more processing devices;
- one or more memory devices communicatively and operably coupled to the one or more processing devices;
- a 5G network management tool at least partially resident within the one or more memory devices, the 5G network management configured to:
- generate a mapping between a UAV designator and a plurality of geospatial region designators;
- instantiate a network slice, wherein the network slice is associated with the mapping of the UAV designator and the plurality of geospatial region designators;
- generate a flight path for a UAV through a plurality of geospatial regions that is partially determined subject to the network slice and the mapping of the UAV designator and the plurality of geospatial region designators;
- provide network service to the UAV through the network slice;
- and
- execute a transit of the UAV through the flight path.
A computer readable storage medium having computer executable instructions that when executed by at least one computing device enhance geospatial mobility management of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), comprising instructions to:
- generate a mapping between a UAV designator and a plurality of geospatial region designators;
- store the mapping on a network control plane;
- instantiate a network slice, wherein the network slice is associated with the mapping of the UAV designator and the plurality of geospatial region designators;
- generate a flight path for a UAV through a plurality of geospatial regions that is partially determined subject to the network slice and the mapping of the UAV designator and the plurality of geospatial region designators;
- provide network service to the UAV through the network slice;
- and
- execute a transit of the UAV through the flight path.
A computer-implemented method for enhancing geospatial mobility management of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), comprising:
- generating a mapping between a UAV designator and a plurality of geospatial region designators;
- instantiating a network slice, wherein the network slice is associated with the mapping of the UAV designator and the plurality of geospatial region designators;
- generating a flight path for a UAV through a plurality of geospatial regions that is partially determined subject to the network slice and the mapping of the UAV designator and the plurality of geospatial region designators;
- providing network service to the UAV through the network slice;
- and
- executing a transit of the UAV through the flight path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.