48 results about "Radio coverage" patented technology

The invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle synchronous navigation and radio mapping method based on reinforcement learning and region adaptive integrated learning, and the method comprises the following steps: S1, constructing a radio environment, and carrying out region division according to geographical location information; the method comprises the following steps: S1, detecting a flight area of an unmanned aerial vehicle by adopting an area detector, S4, exploring an environment by the unmanned aerial vehicle through interactive learning, and simultaneously collecting and learning radio frequency data, S5, carrying out strategy training by adopting an experience pool jointly constructed based on actual experience and simulation experience, and S6, storing experience, calculating a return and updating a network. According to the unmanned aerial vehicle synchronous navigation and radio mapping method based on reinforcement learning and regional adaptive ensemble learning, through synchronous navigation and mapping, the unmanned aerial vehicle can be accurately navigated in an unknown or interference environment, meanwhile, a high-precision radio coverage map is established, and the method is particularly suitable for unmanned aerial vehicle communication and navigation tasks in a complex urban environment.

A communication system includes a drone and a panel with a reconfigurable intelligent surface. The panel is connected to the drone using flexures that allow the orientation of the panel to be controlled. Changing the orientation of the panel, by controlling or configuring the flexures, allows an incident signal to be reflected in a reflection direction to a target location.

A method for transmitting a service time interval or service time information to a user equipment in a mobile communication network includes: transmitting, by a base station entity, reference location information and the service time information to the user equipment, wherein the reference location information relates to the currently covered area or a part thereof, and the service time information relates to a time at which the base station entity is likely to stop serving the currently covered area. The mobile communication network is or at least comprises a part corresponding to or being a non-terrestrial network. The user equipment is served by a base station entity being part of that non-terrestrial network or that non-terrestrial network part. The base station entity has or is provided with—in view of serving or providing radio coverage to the user equipment—at least an antenna entity or functionality.

The technology described herein is directed towards remotely controlling the direction and the signal strength of a beam reflected from a reconfigurable intelligent surface. A modular design of interconnected, communicatively coupled fundamental modules of unit cells facilitates a straightforward assembly process in which the aperture of the reconfigurable intelligent surface can be scaled by tiling together the modules. The reconfigurable intelligent surface aperture can be remotely fine-tuned with respect to gain and beam reflection direction upon receiving a control signal (e.g., a nine-bit digital code through infrared). Depending on a given scenario, the reflected beam be controlled to reflect an electromagnetic wave (e.g., mmWave) as a concentrated, high-gain coverage beam in a specified direction, a more expansive, low-gain coverage area beam in the specified direction, or something in between, e.g., medium signal strength and medium coverage area.

An apparatus configured to: receive a configuration for monitoring behavior; determine whether the apparatus is in a first radio coverage area based, at least partially, on the received configuration; determine a monitoring behavior based on whether the apparatus is in the first radio coverage area, wherein the monitoring behavior comprises a first monitoring behavior based on a determination that the apparatus is in the first radio coverage area, wherein the monitoring behavior comprises a second monitoring behavior based on a determination that the apparatus is outside the first radio coverage area, wherein the first monitoring behavior is at least partially different from the second monitoring behavior; and perform the determined monitoring behavior.

Channel autocorrelation in a radio coverage map is described. An apparatus is configured to provide a network node with at least one channel autocorrelation measurement pilot, indicating channel information of a communication channel and location information associated with a UE, based on a configuration associated with the periodic transmission of at least one channel autocorrelation measurement pilot. The apparatus is configured to communicate with the network node based on a channel autocorrelation map associated with the at least one channel autocorrelation measurement pilot indicating the communication channel and the location information associated with the UE.

The invention relates to a method for enabling communication between a user equipment and an antenna entity or functionality of a base station entity that is part of or associated or assigned to a mobile communication network, wherein the antenna entity or functionality comprises a plurality of antenna elements being arranged around a substantially circular periphery of the antenna entity or functionality and by means of which the antenna entity or functionality is enabled to provide radio coverage in the geographical area around the antenna entity or functionality, wherein, in order to enable communication between the user equipment and the antenna entity or functionality and, at least while the user equipment is in connected mode and located in an arbitrary horizontal direction of the radio coverage area around the antenna entity or functionality, the method comprises the step of dynamically selecting a subset of the plurality of antenna elements in order to provide the user equipment with radio coverage.

A method for enabling communication between a user equipment and a mobile communication network includes: operating an antenna entity or functionality or configuring the antenna entity or functionality such that the shape of a coverage area of a radio cell is configured or configurable in a predefined manner other than circular or elliptical. The mobile communication network is or at least comprises a part corresponding to or being a non-terrestrial network. The user equipment is served by a base station entity which is part of that non-terrestrial network or that non-terrestrial network part. The base station entity has or is provided with—in view of serving or providing radio coverage to the user equipment—at least the antenna entity or functionality.

The invention relates to a method for communication of a user equipment with a specific base station entity of a radio access network of a mobile communication network, wherein the specific base station entity transmits system information as part of a broadcast channel, wherein a specific coverage time information is able to be transmitted, by the user equipment, to the specific base station entity, wherein the specific coverage time information indicates a specific point in time when the user equipment is provided, by the specific base station entity, with sufficiently strong radio coverage, wherein in order to determine the specific point in time when the user equipment is provided with sufficiently strong radio coverage by the specific base station entity and in order to be able to transmit the specific coverage time information, the method comprises the following steps: -- in a first step, the user equipment receives radio signals indicative of the broadcast channel of the specific base station entity, -- in a second step, at a subsequent point in time and upon the user equipment initiating to be connected with the specific base station entity, the user equipment transmits, as part of the connection procedure, at least one radio resource control message to the specific base station entity, wherein the user equipment transmits the specific coverage time information as part of the at least one radio resource control message and wherein the specific coverage time information indicates the specific point in time when the user equipment detects the received radio signals of the specific base station entity as being sufficiently strong.

The invention relates to a method for using a user equipment with a mobile communication network in view of an increased validity and / or verifiability of positional information related to the user equipment, the mobile communication network comprising a core network and a radio access network, wherein the radio access network is or at least comprises a part corresponding to a non-terrestrial network, wherein the user equipment is served by a base station entity being part of that non-terrestrial network or that non-terrestrial network part, wherein the base station entity has or is provided with – in view of serving or providing radio coverage to the user equipment – at least an antenna entity or functionality being either a satellite-based antenna entity or functionality, or an antenna entity or functionality based on a high-altitude platform, the antenna entity or functionality providing radio coverage to a radio cell, wherein the positional information related to the user equipment is generated using a global navigation satellite system, wherein the user equipment comprises a global navigation satellite system receiver entity or functionality in order to be able to generate positional information related to the user equipment, wherein, in order to increase the validity and / or verifiability of the positional information related to the user equipment, the method comprises the following steps: -- in a first step, the user equipment receives, from the base station entity or from the core network, a specific position request information, -- in a second step, the user equipment transmits – to the base station entity or to the core network and in response to the specific position request information – an enhanced set of positional information instead of solely its calculated positional information.

The technology described herein is directed towards remotely controlling the direction and the signal strength of a beam reflected from a reconfigurable intelligent surface. A modular design of interconnected, communicatively coupled fundamental modules of unit cells facilitates a straightforward assembly process in which the aperture of the reconfigurable intelligent surface can be scaled by tiling together the modules. The reconfigurable intelligent surface aperture can be remotely fine-tuned with respect to gain and beam reflection direction upon receiving a control signal (e.g., a nine-bit digital code through infrared). Depending on a given scenario, the reflected beam be controlled to reflect an electromagnetic wave (e.g., mmWave) as a concentrated, high-gain coverage beam in a specified direction, a more expansive, low-gain coverage area beam in the specified direction, or something in between, e.g., medium signal strength and medium coverage area.

The present invention relates to a method for providing a communication service to a user equipment using an access network of a mobile communication network or an access network associated with the mobile communication network, the user equipment can or has a high likelihood of being capable of being connected to or being served by at least one base station entity of the access network, and wherein when the user equipment is located in or near a second geographic area, the user equipment can be connected to or be served by at least one base station entity of the access network. The user equipment cannot or has a low likelihood of being able to be served by any base station entity of the access network or by any base station entity of the access network and / or by any base station entity of another access network, where the user equipment can be connected to or served by any base station entity of the access network and / or by any base station entity of another access network via coverage information that is at least partially able to be transmitted to and received by the user equipment. The first geographic area and / or the second geographic area can be indicated or referenced such that the coverage information indicates, or can be derived from the coverage information, that different sets of location-dependent connection parameters are to be used at different locations of the first and / or second geographic area (250, 260), the present invention relates to a method for providing a communication service for a user equipment such that the user equipment can obtain or be provided with radio coverage when located at such different locations, where the user equipment comprises location detection means or capabilities for determining at least an indication or approximation of a current location of the user equipment, the method comprises the following steps:-in a first step, the user equipment receives a piece of coverage information at a first point in time or during a first time interval, the piece of coverage information being at least part of or corresponding to at least part of the coverage information,-in a second step, the user equipment receives a piece of coverage information at a second point in time or during a second time interval, the user equipment determines an indication or approximation of a current location of the user equipment at a second point in time and using a location detection means or capability of the user equipment, and the user equipment further determines a set of location-related connection parameters corresponding to the determined current location and to be used based on the indication or approximation of the current location of the user equipment and based on the coverage information piece or content thereof, in order to obtain or be provided radio coverage.

The invention relates to a method for communication of a user equipment with a specific base station entity of a radio access network of a mobile communication network, wherein the specific base station entity transmits system information as part of a broadcast channel, wherein a specific coverage time information is able to be transmitted, by the user equipment, to the specific base station entity, wherein the specific coverage time information indicates a specific point in time when the user equipment is provided, by the specific base station entity, with sufficiently strong radio coverage, wherein in order to determine the specific point in time when the user equipment is provided with sufficiently strong radio coverage by the specific base station entity and in order to be able to transmit the specific coverage time information, the method comprises the following steps: -- in a first step, the user equipment receives radio signals indicative of the broadcast channel of the specific base station entity, -- in a second step, at a subsequent point in time and upon the user equipment initiating to be connected with the specific base station entity, the user equipment transmits, as part of the connection procedure, at least one radio resource control message to the specific base station entity, wherein the user equipment transmits the specific coverage time information as part of the at least one radio resource control message and wherein the specific coverage time information indicates the specific point in time when the user equipment detects the received radio signals of the specific base station entity as being sufficiently strong.

A user equipment supporting carrier aggregation and dual connectivity performs measurements for conditional switching with a secondary cell group. The measurement includes a measurement of a plurality of non-serving neighbor cells, the plurality of non-serving neighbor cells including: a non-serving neighbor cell providing radio coverage in a first serving frequency and at least one non-serving neighbor cell providing radio coverage in a second serving frequency, and at least one further non-serving neighbor cell providing radio coverage in a non-serving frequency or in a second serving frequency. The user equipment generates a measurement report that includes an indication of a result of the measurements.

A computer implemented method for managing radio resources used by UEs in a cellular communication network. The communication network includes a plurality of radio resources, each radio resource defining a dimension of a multidimensional radio space over which the communication network extends. The method is performed by a management node and includes determining that a UE fulfils a location condition with respect to a region of the communication network, and providing to the UE a distributed resource management model for the region of the communication network, the distributed resource management model having a radio coverage model including defining radio characteristics of radio zones in the region. The distributed resource management model is operable for use, by the UE, to identify a radio resource action for execution by the UE. Also disclosed are a method performed by a UE, a management node, a UE and a computer readable storage medium.

A wireless control system comprises a plurality of local stations linked by a communication network. Each local station transmits, in a respective radio coverage area, an enduring status signal. An autonomous vehicle is authorized to move while it receives the status signal. When an emergency stop switch of the local station is activated, the local station interrupts its transmission of the status signal. It also instructs one or more further local stations, to which it is linked by a communication network, to interrupt their transmission of the status signal. In this way, the activation of the local emergency stop switch will have effect throughout the control system and will eventually bring all autonomous vehicles to a halt.

The technology described herein is directed towards remotely controlling the direction and the signal strength of a beam reflected from a reconfigurable intelligent surface. A modular design of interconnected, communicatively coupled fundamental modules of unit cells facilitates a straightforward assembly process in which the aperture of the reconfigurable intelligent surface can be scaled by tiling together the modules. The reconfigurable intelligent surface aperture can be remotely fine-tuned with respect to gain and beam reflection direction upon receiving a control signal (e.g., a nine-bit digital code through infrared). Depending on a given scenario, the reflected beam be controlled to reflect an electromagnetic wave (e.g., mmWave) as a concentrated, high-gain coverage beam in a specified direction, a more expansive, low-gain coverage area beam in the specified direction, or something in between, e.g., medium signal strength and medium coverage area.

A communications device configures its transceiver circuitry to transmit uplink signals to and / or to receive downlink signals from one or more non-terrestrial network infrastructure equipment forming part of a non-terrestrial network (NTN) and to transmit uplink signal to and / or to receive uplink signals from one or more terrestrial network infrastructure equipment forming part of a terrestrial network (TN). The configuring includes establishing a dual connectivity mode in which the one or more TN infrastructure equipment is a master network and the one or more NTN infrastructure equipment is a secondary network. The communications device transmits data to or receives data from the TN infrastructure equipment via a first wireless access interface provided by the TN as a master network using the configured transceiver circuitry and de-activates the transceiver circuitry configured for transmitting and receiving data via a second wireless access interface provided by the NTN as a secondary network. The communications device detects a likely loss or reduction of a radio coverage of the first wireless access interface provided by the TN, determines a timing required for synchronisation with the NTN, and activates the transceiver circuitry to transmit and to receive data via the second wireless access interface provided by the NTN using the indication of the timing received from the TN for synchronisation with the NTN. By detecting that there is likely to be a loss or reduction of a radio coverage of a wireless access interface provided by the TN, and determining the timing required for synchronisation with the NTN, the communications device can transmit or receive user data with a reduced likelihood of an interruption of communication of the user data when the UE required to transmit and to receive via a wireless access interface provided by the NTN rather than the TN.

The invention relates to a method for using a user equipment with a mobile communication network and / or for energy-saving operation of the user equipment with the mobile communication network, wherein the mobile communications network provides communications services to the user equipment using a radio access network serving the user equipment or providing radio coverage to the user equipment, where at least a portion of the radio access network corresponds to a terrestrial radio access network providing radio access network functionality to the user equipment, additional or complementary radio access network functionality can be provided to the user equipment by means of a non-terrestrial radio access network, the user equipment being capable of switching or switching to be provided with radio access network functionality by means of a terrestrial radio access network or by means of a non-terrestrial radio access network, in order to use or operate the user equipment in the event of low functionality or absence of a radio access network which is provided or can be provided by means of the terrestrial radio access network, the method comprises the following steps:-in a first step, the user equipment is served by the terrestrial radio access network, -in a second step, the user equipment applies a delay time interval prior to initiating a cell selection procedure with respect to at least the non-terrestrial radio access network,-in a third step, the user equipment applies a delay time interval prior to initiating a cell selection procedure with respect to the non-terrestrial radio access network. -in the event that a loss of radio coverage provided by the terrestrial radio access network is still detected upon expiration of the delay time interval, the user equipment initiates a cell selection procedure with respect to the non-terrestrial radio access network and alternatively initiates a cell selection procedure with respect to the non-terrestrial radio access network. -in the event that the user equipment re-obtains the radio coverage provided by the terrestrial radio access network, the user equipment continues to be served by the terrestrial radio access network.

The technology described herein involves remotely controlling the direction and signal strength of beams reflected from a reconfigurable smart surface. A modular design of interconnected, communicatively coupled building blocks in a cell facilitates a simple assembly process, where the aperture of the reconfigurable smart surface can be scaled by tiling the blocks together. Upon receiving a control signal (e.g., a nine-digit code over infrared), the reconfigurable smart surface aperture can be remotely fine-tuned with respect to gain and beam reflection direction. Depending on a given scenario, the reflected beams can be controlled to reflect electromagnetic waves (e.g., millimeter waves) as concentrated high-gain coverage beams in a specified direction, more extensive low-gain coverage area beams in a specified direction, or some beams in between, e.g., moderate signal strength and medium coverage area.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to beamforming coordination. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a solution for beamforming coordination between devices is proposed. The beamforming of a first device and a second device is coordinated. During a satellite handover time period in a given geographical area, the source beam footprint gradually decreases while the target beam footprint gradually increases. When such coordination is applied, the radio coverage experienced by a UE can be improved.

Various aspects of methods, systems, and use cases include region identification of a malicious device based on crowdsourced locations. A method may include generating a grid of bins of a local radio coverage region, receiving location data from a plurality of devices in the local radio coverage region, and classifying locations of the plurality of devices with respect to the bins. The method may include associating the classified locations of the plurality of devices to the received location data for corresponding devices of the plurality of devices, and generating a model, from the associated classified locations and the received location data.

A method performed by a managing unit is provided. The method is for predicting a serving Access Point, AP, among one or more APs comprised in a subset of APs, to serve a User Equipment UE in a communications network. The UE is within a radio range of the one or more APs in the subset of APs. The managing unit obtains (302) a model associated to the subset of APs, for predicting the serving AP. The model is obtained based on training the model over a first training period. The managing unit obtains (303) a predicted AP from the subset of APs to serve the UE. The predicted AP is obtained based on invoking the model with INPUT data for prediction. The INPUT data for prediction comprises radio signal measurements from a set of reporting APs comprised in the subset of APs. The managing unit communicates (304) a first indication to at least the predicted AP. The first indication indicates the AP that is predicted to serve the UE, and that only the predicted AP shall forward signals received from the UE to a Central Processing Unit, CPU, via a fronthaul.

A method for providing communication services to a user equipment using an access network of or associated with a mobile communication network includes: in a first step, the user equipment receives a piece of coverage information, wherein the piece of coverage information corresponds to a part of the geographical area of the coverage information regarding the geographical area that is currently—dependent on the present and / or past movement of the user equipment—relevant for the user equipment; and in a second step, the user equipment determines an indication or an approximation of its current location, and the user equipment further determines a location-dependent set of connection parameters corresponding to the determined current location and to be used in order to get or to be provided with radio coverage.

Embodiments relate to an apparatus configured to perform a series of measurements indicative of a strength of signals from a neighbouring cell in a wireless communication network. The apparatus is further configured to determine a trend in the strength of signals from the neighbouring cell using the series of measurements and transmit a report to a serving cell supporting providing radio coverage to the apparatus in the wireless communication network for initiating a handover from the serving cell to the neighbouring cell in dependence on the trend.

A method for the transmission to at least one non-geostationary satellite of at least one piece of data stored by a ground-based device, the method being carried out by the non-geostationary satellite and including performing periodically at least one radio coverage measurement, computing a dynamic elevation emission criterion based on the last radio coverage measurement performed, emitting at least one signal periodically towards the Earth, the signal including at least the dynamic elevation emission criterion, if the position of the non-geostationary satellite relative to the position of the ground-based device verifies the dynamic elevation emission criterion: receiving at least one signal sent by the ground-based device, the signal including at least one piece of data stored by at least one ground-based device.

A method performed by a radio network node for handling a radio degradation in a wireless communication network. The radio network node detects the radio degradation in a radio coverage area served by the radio network node. The radio network node further identifies at least one target wireless device to inform about the radio degradation. The radio network node then transmits a notification of the detected radio degradation to the at least one identified target wireless device.

A kind of unmanned aerial vehicle path optimization method based on deep reinforcement learning, storage medium and equipment, comprising S1: establishing the communication model of unmanned aerial vehicle and radio network, including scene model, base station antenna radiation model and signal model, S2: according to the communication model of step S1, the signal interruption probability of unmanned aerial vehicle in different positions is calculated, to build radio coverage probability graph E, S3: considering comprehensively the flight time of unmanned aerial vehicle and the communication coverage probability of different positions, set the optimization target of unmanned aerial vehicle flight path;Based on optimization target, the flight path of unmanned aerial vehicle is optimized using deep reinforcement learning algorithm.The flight path optimization of unmanned aerial vehicle is completed by the above scheme, avoid weak coverage area, to ensure the connectivity between unmanned aerial vehicle and base station;Deep reinforcement learning algorithm is used to improve the utilization rate of important sample, obtain more accurate return value, more effectively optimize the path of unmanned aerial vehicle.

By reducing electricity consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, we aim to mitigate the negative environmental impact of our operations while simultaneously improving our end-user revenue. [Solution] A method for resolving neighboring cell ambiguity includes the steps of receiving a user equipment (UE) measurement report and identifying which combination of neighboring cells would have resulted in the set of physical cell IDs (PCIs) in the UE measurement report by identifying the cells in each combination that have a common area of ​​geometrical radio coverage overlap with the UE's serving cell.