| CPC H04W 36/0058 (2018.08) [H04W 36/0061 (2013.01); H04W 36/322 (2023.05)] | 20 Claims |
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1. A device, comprising:
a processing system including a processor; and
a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
causing one or more uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) to be deployed to a geographic area based on a determined need to offload traffic from a terrestrial base station;
instructing the terrestrial base station to enforce a user equipment (UE) that is served by the terrestrial base station to determine a direction of arrival (DoA) of a received pilot signal emitted from each neighboring cell and to provide determined DoAs in a measurement report to the terrestrial base station;
obtaining the measurement report from the terrestrial base station, wherein the measurement report includes DoA information for a plurality of neighboring cells;
analyzing the DoA information to determine, for each neighboring cell of the plurality of neighboring cells, a probability of that neighboring cell being an aerial cell, resulting in determined probabilities; and
controlling an ability of the terrestrial base station to perform a handover of the UE to one or more of the plurality of neighboring cells based on the determined probabilities.
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