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US 2023/0422161 A1Published application
Unmanned aerial vehicle detection, slice assignment and beam management
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsJin Yang, Lalit R. Kotecha, Donna L. Polehn, Arda Aksu, Vishwanath Ramamurthi
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Abstract
A method may include transmitting multiple antenna beams to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and determining a location of the UAV. The method may also include identifying a network slice to service the UAV, assigning the identified network slice to the UAV and performing antenna beam management for the UAV while the UAV is in flight.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- at least one device comprising a processor, wherein the at least one device is configured to:
- transmit multiple antenna beams to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV),
- determine at least one of a location or speed of the UAV,
- determine information corresponding to at least one of a type of the UAV, a use associated with the UAV, a quality of service (QoS) level or service level agreement (SLA) associated with the UAV, or a historic level of data usage associated with the UAV,
- identify a network slice to service the UAV based on the determined information,
- assign the identified network slice to the UAV, and
- perform antenna beam management for the UAV while the UAV is in flight.
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A method, comprising:
- transmitting multiple antenna beams to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV);
- determining a location of the UAV;
- determining a speed of the UAV;
- determining information corresponding to at least one of a type of the UAV, a use associated with the UAV, a quality of service (QoS) level or service level agreement (SLA) associated with the UAV, or a historic level of data usage associated with the UAV;
- identifying a network slice to service the UAV based on the determined information;
- assigning the identified network slice to the UAV;
- and
- performing antenna beam management for the UAV while the UAV is in flight.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon sequences of instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
- determine information corresponding to at least one of a type of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a use associated with the UAV, a quality of service (QoS) level or service level agreement (SLA) associated with the UAV, or an historic level of data usage associated with the UAV;
- determine at least one of a location or speed of the UAV;
- identify a network slice to service the UAV based on the determined information;
- assign the identified network slice to the UAV;
- and
- perform antenna beam management for the UAV while the UAV is in flight based on at least one of the location or speed of the UAV.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.