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US 2017/0288768 A1Published application
Drone Base Station Companion
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsVenson M. Shaw, Jin He
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AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsVenson M. Shaw, Jin He
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Use of a drone base station companion increases diversity gain in a communications system to reduce error rates and the probability of the need for a retransmission due to channel fading. An apparatus includes a drone base station companion configured as a relay between a base station in a first cell and wireless user equipment in the first cell. The drone base station companion includes a wireless receiver path configured to receive a wireless communication including data from the base station. The drone base station companion includes a wireless transmitter path configured to transmit the data to the wireless user equipment. The drone base station companion may include a second wireless receiver path configured to receive a second wireless communication including the data from the wireless user equipment. The drone base station companion may include a second wireless transmitter path configured to transmit the second data to the base station.
An apparatus comprising:
A method comprising:
A wireless user equipment comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.