Techniques to provide route planning for a mobile radio-capable user device

A method of route planning for a UAV, which receives control signal and route information by means of a 3GPP radio network, comprising the following steps:

• providing QoS requirements of the UAV along with a starting point and a destination point of the UAV by means of a communication interface to a route planning unit of the 3GPP network;
• calculating a possible route comprising a plurality of waypoints between the starting point and the destination point by a route planning algorithm of the route planning unit, wherein the UAV shall traverse radio cells along the route and communicate with these radio cells, wherein the waypoints have a granularity smaller than the size of the radio cells and wherein the possible route is calculated based on a highest reliability criterion;
• requesting QOS capacities of the radio cells along the possible route;
• verification that the QoS capacities of each radio cell along the route meet the QoS requirements:
• if each radio cell along the possible route meets the QoS requirements:
• provide as output the route as the route to be taken by means of the communication interface of the radio network so that the flight can start, and
• if at least one radio cell along the route does not meet the QoS requirements, another route is calculated taking into account the at least one radio cell that did not meet the QoS requirements, whereby this route is checked again with regard to the QoS requirements.