An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) comprises a situational awareness system coupled to at least one onboard sensor that senses the location of other UAVs. A cooperative Radio Access Network (RAN)-signal processor is configured to process RAN signals in a UAV-User Equipment (UE) channel cooperatively with at least one other UAV to provide for increased rank of the UAV-UE channel and produce RAN performance criteria. A flight controller employs autonomous navigation control of the UAVs flight based on the relative spatial locations of other UAVs and the RAN performance criteria operating within predetermined boundaries of navigation criteria. The UAV can be configured to employ mitigation tactics against one or more UEs identified as a threat and may coordinate other UAVs to conduct such mitigations.
Airborne relays in cooperative-MIMO systems
2020-04-02
Patent
Electronic Resource
English