| CPC H04B 7/18513 (2013.01) [H04W 36/08 (2013.01); H04W 36/083 (2023.05); H04W 36/24 (2013.01)] | 18 Claims |
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1. A device, comprising:
one or more processors configured to:
connect to a base station of a wireless network;
receive, from a first Non-Terrestrial Network (“NTN”) node of a plurality of NTN nodes, telemetry information associated with the plurality of NTN nodes, wherein the received telemetry information is broadcasted from the first NTN node and is received by the device without connecting to the first NTN node, wherein the received telemetry information includes:
first telemetry information associated with the first NTN node, and
second telemetry information associated with a second NTN node of the plurality of NTN nodes;
determine, based on the first telemetry information, that a distance between the device and the first NTN node is increasing as a function of time;
determine, based on the second telemetry information, that a distance between the device and the second NTN node is decreasing as a function of time;
identify a particular handover condition;
select, based on identifying the particular handover condition, a particular NTN node of the plurality of NTN nodes, wherein selecting the particular NTN node includes selecting the second NTN node based on determining that the distance between the device and the first NTN node is increasing as a function of time and further based on determining that the distance between the device and the second NTN node is decreasing as a function of time;
initiate a handover procedure from the base station of the wireless network to the second NTN node; and
connect to the second NTN node based on the handover procedure.
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