Inter-radio access technology spectrum sharing

A base station comprising:

• a processor;
• a hardware-based transceiver:
• and
• a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, responsive to execution by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
• providing a first wireless network over a first set of communication resources and using a first radio access technology (RAT);
• receiving a notification that additional communication resources are temporarily available to the base station for increasing a bandwidth of the first wireless network, the additional communication resources having been previously allocated to a second wireless network using a second RAT that is different from the first RAT;
• providing the first wireless network over a second set of communication resources, the second set of communication resources including a portion of the additional communication resources;
• and
• providing, based on the additional communication resources being unavailable, of the first wireless network over a third set of communication resources.

A method for inter-radio access technology spectrum sharing performed by a base station of a wireless network, the method comprising:

• providing the wireless network over a first set of communication resources, the wireless network using a first radio access technology (RAT);
• determining that a portion of the first set of communication resources are temporarily available for use by another base station of another wireless network;
• transmitting, to the other base station, a notification that the portion of the first set of communication resources are available to the other base station for a time interval, the other base station using a second RAT that is different from the first RAT;
• determining, after the time interval, that the portion of the first set of communication resources are unavailable for use by the other base station;
• and
• providing the wireless network over the first set of communication resources including the portion of the first set of communication resources.