Detection of violations and potential actions for aerial devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025322738-A1
Application number	US-202519093654-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 28, 2025
Priority date	Apr 15, 2024
Publication date	Oct 16, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for managing violations by aerial devices, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). One aspect provides a method for violation detection. The method includes detecting, at a first network entity, a violation of an area restriction by an aerial device; and triggering a notification to a second network entity based on the violation of the area restriction, the notification causing a warning notification to be sent regarding the violation of the area restriction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An apparatus for violation detection, comprising:
memory; and one or more processors coupled to the memory and configured to:
detect, at a first network entity, a violation of an area restriction by an aerial device; and
trigger a notification to a second network entity based on the violation of the area restriction, the notification causing a warning notification to be sent regarding the violation of the area restriction.

2 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:
the notification comprises a network exposure function (NEF) notification; and to trigger the notification, the one or more processors are configured to provide information about the aerial device violating the area restriction to a network exposure function (NEF).

3 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first network entity comprises a radio access network entity (RAN) entity, and wherein the second network entity comprises an access management function (AMF) entity.

4 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to perform aerial device monitoring without a solicitation for monitoring by a third party controller, wherein the violation is detected based on the aerial device monitoring.

5 . The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the aerial device monitoring is agnostic of an identifier of the aerial device.

6 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
receive, at the second network entity, the notification; and trigger, at the second network entity, the warning notification via an NEF notification service based on the notification.

7 . The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the NEF notification service triggers an application function (AF) service to send the warning notification.

8 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to receive, from a third party controller, an indication of an area associated with the area restriction, wherein the detection of the violation is performed based on the indication of the area.

9 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to perform aerial device monitoring within an area associated with the area restriction, wherein the violation by the aerial device is detected based on the aerial device monitoring.

10 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein, to detect the violation, the one or more processors are configured to detect detecting that the aerial device has deviated from a flight path by a threshold distance.

11 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to detect the violation based on detection of physical layer (PHY) signals by the aerial device.

12 . The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the PHY signals comprises a sounding reference signal (SRS).

13 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein, to detect the violation, the one or more processors are configured to perform uplink (UL) channel quality estimation based on one or more signal transmissions from the aerial device.

14 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first network entity is a base station dedicated to aerial device monitoring for violation detection.

15 . The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the base station is different than a serving base station of the aerial device.

16 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to identify the aerial device using coordination with a serving network of the aerial device.

17 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein, to detect the violation, the one or more processors are configured to:
identify one or more resources used for one or more signal transmissions by the aerial device; indicate the one or more resources to a serving network of the aerial device; and receive an identification of the aerial device based on the one or more resources.

18 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to detect the violation independently of any location information provided by the aerial device.

19 . An apparatus for violation detection by a first aerial device, comprising:
memory; and one or more processors coupled to the memory and configured to:
perform aerial device monitoring to detect a violation of an area restriction;
detect the violation of the area restriction by a second aerial device based on the aerial device monitoring, the second aerial device being different than the first aerial device; and
transmit information regarding the aerial device to a cellular operator or a third party controller based on detecting the violation.

20 . The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the information comprises at least one of a location of the aerial device, a height of aerial device, or one or more capabilities of the aerial device.

21 . An apparatus for violation enforcement, comprising:
memory; and one or more processors coupled to the memory and configured to:
detect that an aerial device is violating an area restriction, wherein the area restriction is associated with one of multiple types of area restrictions; and
take an enforcement action in response to the area restriction being violated, wherein the enforcement action to be taken is identified based on the one of the multiple types of the area restriction.

22 . The apparatus of claim 21 , wherein the multiple types of area restrictions comprise a no-fly zone (NFZ) restriction, a no-transmit zone (NTZ) restriction, or a no-leave zone (NLZ) restriction.

23 . The apparatus of claim 21 , wherein, to take the enforcement action, the one or more processors are configured to take action to prevent downlink (DL) signaling to the aerial device based on the one of the multiple types of area restrictions being an NTZ restriction or an NLZ restriction.

24 . The apparatus of claim 23 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to take the action to prevent DL signaling to the aerial device while maintaining connectivity to a wireless network for the aerial device.

25 . The apparatus of claim 21 , wherein, to take the enforcement action, the one or more processors are configured to take action to move the aerial device to idle or inactive mode based on the one of the multiple types of area restrictions being an NTZ restriction or an NLZ restriction.

26 . A method for violation detection, comprising:
detecting, at a first network entity, a violation of an area restriction by an aerial device; and triggering a notification to a second network entity based on the violation of the area restriction, the notification causing a warning notification to be sent regarding the violation of the area restriction.

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Phuyal Umesh
• Faccin Stefano
• Saha Chiranjib
• Kanamarlapudi Sitaramanjaneyulu
• Liu Le
• Rico Alvarino Alberto

Classifications

• H04W4/021 Primary

  Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences · CPC title

• G08B21/18 Primary

  Status alarms (G08B21/02 takes precedence) · CPC title