Terrestrial multi-antenna system for airborne wireless service
AssigneeT-Mobile Innovations LLC
InventorsBhagwan Singh KHANKA, Brandon James Braunlich
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for delivering telecommunications coverage to airborne user equipment (UE). More particularly, in aspects set forth herein, systems and methods utilize a multi-antenna system at a terrestrial base station in order to separately communicate signals to UEs at (or near) ground level and to UEs that are airborne.
Claims19
A multi-antenna system comprising:
- a controller;
- a first antenna panel having a first tilt that is configured to communicate a first set of wireless signals to a first coverage area;
- and
- a second antenna panel having a second tilt that is configured to communicate a second set of wireless signals to a second coverage area,
- wherein the controller utilizes one or more interference mitigation measures to prevent the first set of wireless signals from interfering with the second set of wireless signals.
The system of claim 4, wherein the second antenna panel is configured to communicate with the plurality of airborne UEs.
- The system of claim 5, wherein the second coverage area does not comprise the ground level.
A method for providing airborne wireless service, the method comprising:
- communicating a first set of wireless signals from a first antenna panel having a first tilt to a first coverage area;
- and
- communicating a second set of wireless signals from a second antenna panel having a second tilt to a second coverage area,
- wherein a controller utilizes one or more interference mitigation measures to prevent the first set of wireless signals from interfering with the second set of wireless signals.
A non-transitory computer readable media containing computer executable instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more computer processing components, cause the one or more computer processing components to perform a method of providing airborne wireless service to a user equipment (UE), comprising:
- communicating a first set of wireless signals from a first antenna system to a terrestrial cell using a terrestrial base station, wherein the first set of wireless signals uses a first frequency and wherein the first set of wireless signals comprises a synchronization signal having a first public land mobile network (PLMN) identifier;
- and
- communicating a second set of wireless signals from a second antenna system to an airborne cell using the terrestrial base station, wherein the second set of wireless signals uses a first frequency, and wherein the second set of wireless signals comprises a synchronization signal having a second PLMN identifier, the first frequency being different than the second frequency, the first PLMN identifier being different than the second PLMN identifier, the airborne cell and the terrestrial cell having main lobes that have a non-zero and positive angular separation in a vertical plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.