US 11,956,684 B2
Handover analysis for a moving vehicle
Krzysztof Dudzinski, Berkshire (GB); Andrew Logothetis, Buckinghamshire (GB); Marlon Peter Persaud, Buckinghamshire (GB); Ashvtosh Goel, Berkshire (GB); and Venkateswarlu Katepalli, Berkshire (GB)
Assigned to AIRSPAN IP HOLDCO LLC, Boca Raton, FL (US)
Filed by AIRSPAN IP HOLDCO LLC, Boca Raton, FL (US)
Filed on May 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/745,818.
Application 17/745,818 is a continuation of application No. 16/814,563, filed on Mar. 10, 2020, granted, now 11,337,127.
Claims priority of application No. 1903217 (GB), filed on Mar. 11, 2019; application No. 1905222 (GB), filed on Apr. 12, 2019; and application No. 1910318 (GB), filed on Jul. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0338081 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04B 7/01 (2006.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/32 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 74/0833 (2024.01); H04W 92/20 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/08 (2013.01) [H04B 7/01 (2013.01); H04B 7/18506 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 4/40 (2018.02); H04W 36/0022 (2013.01); H04W 36/0055 (2013.01); H04W 36/32 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 64/003 (2013.01); H04W 64/006 (2013.01); H04W 74/0833 (2013.01); H04W 92/20 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
computation circuitry to compute, for each moving vehicle within a group of moving vehicles associated with a given base station, a separation distance between that moving vehicle and the given base station; and
communication frame format selection circuitry to determine a selected communication frame format to be used for communication between the given base station and each moving vehicle within the group of moving vehicles, wherein the selected communication frame format is selected from a set of communication frame formats, where the set of communication frame formats comprise communication frame formats defining associated communication frames that differ from each other regarding a proportion of the communication frame available for downlink communication from the given base station to the moving vehicles within the group of moving vehicles,
wherein the communication frame format selection circuitry is arranged to determine the selected communication frame format in dependence on the separation distances computed by the computation circuitry for the moving vehicles within the group of moving vehicles.