Methods, systems, and devices for performing a handover of unmanned aerial vehicles (uavs) based on height thresholds of base stations

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• determining that a current height of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) exceeds a serving height threshold associated with a serving base station;
• determining a candidate group of target base stations based on the current height of the UAV and a group of target height thresholds associated with a group of target base stations;
• selecting a first target base station from the candidate group of target base stations based on (i) a first target height threshold associated with the first target base station and (ii) a first signal strength associated with the first target base station, a first signal quality associated with the first target base station, a first available bandwidth associated with the first target base station, or any combination thereof;
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• providing second instructions to the serving base station to perform a handover of the UAV from the serving base station to the first target base station.

A method, comprising:

• providing, by a processing system including a processor, first instructions to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) via a serving base station to collect a group of target height thresholds associated with a group of target base stations;
• obtaining, by the processing system, the group of target height thresholds from the UAV;
• determining, by the processing system, that a current height of the UAV exceeds a serving height threshold associated with the serving base station;
• determining, by the processing system, a candidate group of target base stations based on the current height of the UAV and the group of target height thresholds;
• selecting, by the processing system, a first target base station from the candidate group of target base stations based on (i) a first target height threshold associated with the first target base station and (ii) a first signal strength associated with the first target base station, a first signal quality associated with the first target base station, a first available bandwidth associated with the first target base station, or any combination thereof;
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• providing, by the processing system, second instructions to the serving base station to perform a handover of the UAV from the serving base station to the first target base station.