Vehicle-based small cell base stations

A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• transmitting a request for content to a macrocell base station;
• receiving data from the macrocell base station identifying a vehicle-based base station;
• establishing a connection with the vehicle-based base station based at least in part on the data from the macrocell base station;
• and
• receiving at least a portion of the content from the vehicle-based base station.

A macrocell base station, comprising:

• at least one memory that stores computer-executable instructions;
• and
• at least one processor configured to access the at least one memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to:
• receive data from one or more user devices;
• receive data from one or more vehicle-based base stations;
• receive a request from a user device of the one or more user devices to establish a connection;
• identify a vehicle-based base station of the one or more vehicle-based base stations based at least in part on the data received from at least one of the one or more vehicle-based base stations or the one or more user devices;
• and
• transmit data associated with the identified vehicle-based base station to the user device.