Systems and methods are provided for a network of relay drones utilized as a set of relays or linkages between a base station and a working drone controlled by the base station. The relay drones in the network may augment a communication link or communication signal between the base station and working drone. Relay drones may augment the communication link by acting as nodes that relay communication between the base station and the working drone by boosting the communication signal at each node to compensate for loss of signal power over a traveled distance and/or providing a path with a direct line of sight between the base station and working drone. Directional antennas may be utilized when a direct line of sight is established, which may improve communication signal efficacy when compared with omnidirectional antennas.

Provided are an information transmission and reception method and apparatus. The method includes: determining a transmission manner of a V2X service duplication to be transmitted; selecting a PC5 air interface carrier for transmitting the V2X service duplication according to a rule corresponding to the transmission manner; and transmitting the V2X service duplication on the selected PC5 air interface carrier.

Provided are an electronic device for supporting vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication on which an autonomous driving vehicle technology, a cooperative-intelligent transport systems (C-ITS) technology, etc. are based and an operation method of the electric device. The electronic device mounted to a vehicle to support wireless mobile communication for the vehicle includes: a dedicated short range communication (DSRC) module configured to perform wireless communication by using DSRC technology; a cellular V2X (C-V2X) module configured to perform wireless communication by using C-V2X technology; an antenna; and a processor configured to control a switch to connect one of the DSRC module and the C-V2X module to the antenna.

Systems, methods, controllers and algorithms for controlling a vehicle to closely follow another vehicle safely using automatic or partially automatic control are described. The described control schemes are well suited for use in vehicle platooning and/or vehicle convoying applications, including truck platooning and convoying controllers. In one aspect, methods of initiating a platoon between a host vehicle and a platoon partner are described. In another aspect, a number of specific checks are described for determining whether a platoon controller is ready to initiate platoon control of the host vehicle. In another aspect, a platoon controller that includes a state machine that determines the state of the platoon controller is described. In another aspect, methods for generating braking alerts to a driver of a vehicle while the vehicle is being at least semi-automatically controlled by a platoon controller are described.

Methods and systems are provided for adaptive management of antennas in a communication network comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes (e.g., a network of moving things, which may be a vehicle network, a network of or including autonomous vehicles, etc.).

Method of resource selection where a selection window with a total number of resources is set. The method includes setting a sensing window and monitoring slots by decoding a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) and measuring a reference signal received power (RSRP), setting a threshold, excluding any restricted resources from the total number of resources, excluding any occupied resources from the total number of resources, and determining if an initial number of remaining resources is greater than or equal to an initial percentage of the total number of resources.

Various arrangements for managing network channels are presented. A backend system can receive data from one or more data sources. Based at least in part on the data received from the one or more data sources, a triggering event and a location related to the triggering event can be determined. Location data associated with the location related to the triggering event can be transmitted to a UAV and the UAV deployed. While the UAV is deployed at the location, the UAV can relay data between wireless devices, such as cellular phones, and a network access point, such as a cellular base station.

A method and a device for paging in sidelink communication are disclosed. An operating method of a transmitting terminal comprises the steps of: receiving SL paging setup information from a base station; receiving a paging DCI from the base station in an SPO indicated by the SL paging setup information; and transmitting an SL paging message to one or more receiving terminals in a sidelink resource indicated by the paging DCI.

This invention provides a system-oriented and fully-controlled connected automated vehicle highway system for various levels of connected and automated vehicles and highways. The system comprises one or more of: 1) a hierarchical traffic control network of Traffic Control Centers (TCC's), local traffic controller units (TCUs), 2) A RSU (Road Side Unit) network (with integrated functionalities of vehicle sensors, I2V communication to deliver control instructions), 3) OBU (On-Board Unit with sensor and V2I communication units) network embedded in connected and automated vehicles, and 4) wireless communication and security system with local and global connectivity. This system provides a safer, more reliable and more cost-effective solution by redistributing vehicle driving tasks to the hierarchical traffic control network and RSU network.

A network node selection method and apparatus and a network node activation method and apparatus are provided. In the network node selection method, network node selection information of one or more moving network nodes is acquired, the network node selection information is used for selecting a moving network node to be activated; a moving network node to be activated is selected from the one or more moving network nodes according to the network node selection information and a node activation command message is sent to the moving network node to be activated.