EFFICIENT BEAM SWEEPING WHEN SERVING UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES OVER ADVANCED NETWORKING EQUIPMENT

An architecture to provide efficient beam sweeping when servicing unmanned aerial vehicles over advanced network equipment. A method can comprise determining that a user equipment is an unmanned aerial vehicle, instructing serving cell equipment to power up a first group of beams, instructing neighbor serving cell equipment to power a second group of beams, based on tracking data and the first group of beams to which the unmanned aerial user equipment is attached, determining a trajectory associated with a flight path of the unmanned aerial vehicle, based on the trajectory, the flight path, and a handover event, determining that the neighbor cell equipment is servicing the unmanned aerial vehicle, and instructing the serving cell equipment to power down the first beam of the first group of beams to allow energy conservation, reduction, and/or preservation at the serving cell equipment.