(57) ABSTRACT A network node of a terrestrial cellular system provides telecommunications
service to a user equipment (UE) in an airborne aircraft. Navigation information transmitted …

Certain aspects of the disclosure provide for the protection of broadcast signals in
heterogeneous networks. As described herein, a first set of resources used for downlink …

An apparatus for repeating signals includes a receive antenna for receiving input signals,
processing circuitry for processing the input signals to form repeated signals, and a transmit …

A technique for providing users with in-flight connectivity includes a method for operating a
communications system on an aircraft comprising allocating to a communications session …

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al. US PATENT DOCUMENTS 6,880,750 B2 4/2005 Pentel 6,889,042 B2 5/2005 Rousseau …

A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a
mobility speed group assignment for a mobile communication device having a radio …

4,654,867 A 3, 1987 Labedz et al. Near Real Time traffic can be controlled by a simple
Traffic 5,042,027 A 8, 1991 Takase et al. Sha** process executed by the Traffic …

(57) ABSTRACT A flight transceiver station (FTS) mounted onboard an aircraft
communicates with one or more terrestrial trans ceiver points by determining, for a future …

(57) ABSTRACT The DSCP Mirroring System enables the automatic reuse of the
Differentiated Services Code Point header by the user devices that are served by a network …

A handover method and a control transfer method are provided. A handover method of
performing an inter-cell handover between a first ground station and a second ground …