Patent ID: 11943664
Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A transportation vehicle comprising: a communication module; and a processing device that forms a message for requesting a communication from or to a base station, wherein the request demands a specified quality of service, wherein the communication module sends the formed message and receives a message from the base station informing about a need for relayed communication for the requested communication demanding the specified quality of service, wherein the processing device registers the need for relayed communication in a memory, wherein the registered information includes position information or time information from which the relayed communication needs to be provided, wherein the communication between the base station and the transportation vehicle is managed by: collection of service quality reporting messages from a plurality of moving communication partners registered in a communication cell managed by the base station, the service quality reporting messages including service quality reporting messages for direct communications between two of the plurality of moving communication partners, which includes the transportation vehicle as one of the plurality of moving communication partners; generation of quality of service maps for the communications between the base station and the transportation vehicle, as well as for the direct communications between two of the plurality of moving communication partners; receipt of planned trajectories from the plurality of moving communication partners; calculation of predicted quality of service profiles for the communications between the base station and a moving communication partner as well as predicted quality of service profiles for the direct communications between the plurality of moving communication partners based on the generated quality of service maps and the planned trajectories, the predicted quality of service profiles representing a temporal evolution of at least one quality of service parameter; receipt of a request from the transportation vehicle for a communication between the base station and the transportation vehicle, the request demanding a specified quality of service; determination, based on the predicted quality of service profiles, whether the specified quality of service demanded by the request is satisfied along the planned trajectory of the transportation vehicle by a direct communication between the base station and the transportation vehicle or by relay of the communication via one of the other moving communication partners, wherein the determination of whether the specified quality of service is satisfied is based on comparison of the at least one quality of service parameter represented by the predicted quality of service profile for the communication between the base station and the transportation vehicle with a threshold representing a minimum requirement which the quality of service parameter satisfies; and establishment of the communication between the base station and the transportation vehicle accordingly along the planned trajectory.