| CPC H04B 7/18506 (2013.01) [H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.02); H04W 76/14 (2018.02)] | 18 Claims |
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1. A method of group creation for a pair of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and an unmanned aerial vehicle-controller (UAV-C) in a service enabler architecture layer (SEAL) architecture, the method comprising:
determining, by an unmanned aerial system application enabler (UAE) server, the pair of the UAV and the UAV-C in the SEAL architecture;
transmitting, by the UAE server, a group creation request for the pair of the UAV and the UAV-C to a SEAL group management (GM) server of the SEAL architecture;
receiving a first response message, by the UAE server, from the SEAL GM server in response to the group creation request;
creating a group including the pair of the UAV and the UAV-C based on the first response message, the group being used for quality-of-service (QOS) management;
establishing direct command and control (C2) communication for the pair of the UAV and the UAV-C using an initially allocated network QoS setup, the UAV and the UAV-C being registered to a network;
monitoring, by the UAE server, a current network condition of the pair of the UAV and the UAV-C based on feedback information from the pair of the UAV and the UAV-C;
when the direct C2 communication fails to meet a pre-defined QoS requirement, transmitting, by the UAE server, a QoS adaption request to a SEAL network resource management (NRM) server; and
receiving, by the UAE server, from the SEAL NRM server an updated QoS requirement, wherein
the feedback information of the pair of the UAV and the UAV-C includes:
a group identity (ID) assigned to the pair of the UAV and the UAV-C, and
a network resource requirement indicating required C2 communication resources.
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