A system and method (600) of securely and accurately connecting mobile devices (110) to wireless networks in vehicles (210) for a predetermined work assignment by using encrypted wireless network configurations based on vehicle specific data is disclosed herein. The system comprises a vehicle (210) comprising an on-board computer (232) with a memory (231) having a vehicle identification number (233), a connector plug (235), and an motorized engine (234), a connected vehicle device (130) comprising a processor, a WiFi radio, a BLUETOOTH radio, a memory, and a connector for mating with the connector plug of the vehicle (210), and a mobile device (110) comprising a graphical user interface (335), a processor (310), a WiFi radio (307), a BLUETOOTH radio (306), and a cellular network interface (308).

Systems and methods for providing wireless communication between the interior of a moving vehicle (10, C1, C2) and stationary communication systems (11-1A, 11-2A) located along a track of the vehicle (10, C1, C2) are described, with the vehicle (10) having antenna sets (A1, A2) each including a plurality of antennas (A11, A12, A21, A22) mounted onto the vehicle (10) wherein said plurality of antennas has at least two pairs of antennas orthogonal polarization with respect to each other and wherein within each pair the antennas are configured to have full pattern diversity with a first antenna (A11, A21) of each pair oriented to receive/transmit signals essentially in direction of travel and a second antenna (A12, A22) of each pair oriented to receive/transmit signals essentially in direction opposite to the direction of travel and the stationary communication system (11-1, 11-2) comprising antenna systems (11-1A, 11-2A) for providing during operation two cross-polarized RF antenna corridors (17-1, 17-2) in the opposite directions along the track (19) and wherein the RF antenna corridors (17-1, 17-2) overlap along a section of the track, aid receiving/transmitting two independent signal channels (s5, s6) over the first cross-polarized RF antenna corridor (17-1) and receiving/transmitting two further independent signal channels (s7, s8) over the second cross-polarized RF antenna corridor (17-2).

A method is disclosed, comprising: collecting, at an in-vehicle base station, reports from a plurality of user equipments (UEs); storing, at the in-vehicle base station, reports collected from the plurality of UEs into a database; forwarding, from the in-vehicle base station to a coordinating server, stored reports into the database; performing, at the coordinating server, data analysis of the received reports; and sending, from the coordinating server to a base station, an instruction to update at least one configuration parameter of the base station, thereby improving data collection and data processing for radio frequency cell optimization.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) and a base station may determine whether the UE is inside or outside of a vehicle with a relay device. Techniques for determining whether the UE is inside or outside of the vehicle are described herein. The UE may determine whether to camp on a cell of the relay device based on whether the UE is inside or outside the vehicle. The base station may perform connected mode mobility for the UE based on whether the UE is inside or outside the vehicle.

A local roaming cell system for a mobile communication coverage area is disclosed. The system comprises: a RF head end that communicates with a plurality of base stations via a plurality of wireless RF communication links, wherein the plurality of base stations are outside of the coverage area; a conversion and link aggregation circuit that demodulates and processes downlink base station signals associated with at least two of the plurality of base stations by link aggregation to obtain a downlink signal comprising communications data extracted from the downlink base station signals; a roaming base station that modulates portions of the downlink signal to provide a local communication cell within in the coverage area to a plurality of user terminals. A first of the user terminals communicates via the roaming base station with a different one of the plurality of base stations than a second of user terminals.

A method of handover of radio communication (70) between user equipment (71; 72; 73) and radio network access devices (31-37) of a radio access network (30) operatively connected by an intermediate mobile radio access device (50). Handover of the radio communication (70) is performed by the mobile radio access device (50) in association with mobile management entity functionality (40) available to the radio network access device (31) serving the radio communication (70) and a further radio network access device (32-37) of the radio access network (30) having received a handover request transmitted by the mobile radio access device (50).

A first terminal of a radio communications network. The first terminal includes at least one processor, at least one memory with computer program code, and at least one communication module and at least one antenna. The computer program code is configured in such a way that, using the processor, the communication module, and the antenna, it causes the first terminal to send first messages on a first radio resource to a group of further terminals, to receive at least one response, after sending the particular first message, from at least one of the further terminals of the group, to ascertain a resource change decision as a function of the at least one response, and to send second messages as a function of the resource change decision on a second radio resource to the group of further terminals, the second radio resource being different from the first radio resource.

A method at a computing device within an Intelligent Transportation System, the method including detecting a traffic event at the computing device; determining no fixed roadside unit is available from the computing device; establishing an Internet Protocol connection from the computing device to a network node; and sending a traffic event message from the computing device to the network node, the traffic event message providing information for the traffic event.

A system comprising: a plurality of mobile edge caches integrated within a corresponding plurality of mobile environments; a local network manager coupled to each edge cache device in each mobile environment to provide network connectivity to client devices; a plurality of network access devices, each network access device to provide local network access to client devices within the mobile environment, and to further perform network address translation on behalf of the client devices within the local network of the mobile environment; and regional configuration logic, responsive to an event indicating that a first mobile environment has moved from a first geographical region to a second graphical region, to modify one or more configuration settings of a first network access device in a first mobile environment and/or client devices in the first mobile environment to align content availability from the edge cache with requirements of the second geographical region.

A computer-implemented method for controlling a vehicle communication network comprising a plurality of nodes at a site, where at least some of the nodes are vehicles operating at the site. The method includes obtaining environment data indicative of a geometry of the site; obtaining position data indicative of respective positions of the nodes; modelling respective communication channels between interconnected nodes in the vehicle communication network based on the environment data and the position data; estimating respective signal quality metrics indicative of a communication link quality between the respective interconnected nodes based on the modelled communication channels; and controlling relative positions of the vehicles at the site based on the signal quality metrics and on a pre-determined signal quality acceptance criterion.