Integrated wireless local area network for spectrum sharing
AssigneeZte Corporation
InventorsYonggang Fang, Bo Sun, Li Zhang
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Abstract
A wireless communication system includes a database that holds spectral usage and availability information, an access point that operates to provide wireless services from a plurality of service operators and a gateway that receives a wireless spectrum allocation request from a service operator, determines spectrum availability by consulting the database, responds to the service operator with a grant or a denial based on the determined spectrum availability, and controls the access point to provide wireless service according to the response to the service operator.
Claims15
A method for facilitating wireless communications, comprising:
- receiving, from a requester, a wireless spectrum request, the request identifying a geographic location where the wireless spectrum is to be used and a time window during which the wireless spectrum is to be used;
- querying a database for available options to fulfill the received wireless spectrum request;
- receiving a list of one or more wireless channels that are available to fulfill the request;
- selecting a candidate channel from the list by applying a first business rule and a second operational rule;
- and
- communicating information about the candidate channel to fulfill the wireless spectrum request.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a memory that stores processor executable instructions;
- and
- a processor that executes the instructions to implement a method comprising:
- receiving, from a requester, a wireless spectrum request, the request identifying a geographic location where the wireless spectrum is to be used and a time window during which the wireless spectrum is to be used;
- querying a database for available options to fulfill the received wireless spectrum request;
- receiving a list of one or more wireless channels that are available to fulfill the request;
- selecting a candidate channel from the list by applying a first business rule and a second operational rule;
- and
- communicating information about the candidate channel to fulfill the wireless spectrum request.
A wireless communication system, comprising:
- a database that holds spectral usage and availability information;
- an integrated access point that operates to provide wireless services from a plurality of service operators;
- and
- a gateway that:
- receives a wireless spectrum allocation request from a service operator,
- determines spectrum availability by consulting the database,
- responds to the service operator with a grant or a denial based on the determined spectrum availability, and
- controls the access point to provide wireless service according to the response to the service operator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.