Uncrewed aerial vehicle command and control link reliability over cellular networks

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processing system including at least one processor deployed in a cellular network, cause the processing system to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• obtaining at least one uplink channel quality measure associated with an uncrewed aerial vehicle, wherein the uncrewed aerial vehicle includes at least one cellular radio for communication with the cellular network;
• identifying that the at least one uplink channel quality measure is below at least a first threshold quality level;
• and
• transmitting at least one instruction to implement a transmission time interval bundling between the uncrewed aerial vehicle and a serving cell for command and control traffic of the uncrewed aerial vehicle, in response to the identifying that the at least one uplink channel quality measure is below the at least the first threshold quality level.

An apparatus comprising:

• a processing system including at least one processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processing system when deployed in a cellular network, cause the processing system to perform operations, the operations comprising:
• obtaining at least one uplink channel quality measure associated with an uncrewed aerial vehicle, wherein the uncrewed aerial vehicle includes at least one cellular radio for communication with the cellular network;
• identifying that the at least one uplink channel quality measure is below at least a first threshold quality level;
• and
• transmitting at least one instruction to implement a transmission time interval bundling between the uncrewed aerial vehicle and a serving cell for command and control traffic of the uncrewed aerial vehicle, in response to the identifying that the at least one uplink channel quality measure is below the at least the first threshold quality level.