User equipment identification from mobile high-speed wireless uplink channels

A system for identifying wireless devices, comprising:

• one or more sensor antennas;
• one or more radio frequency sensors configured to couple radio frequency signals from the one or more sensor antennas and generate data samples representing at least a portion of the radio frequency signals;
• and
• a signal analysis system comprising one or more processing units, and one or more processing modules configuring the one or more processing units to:
• identify, from within the generated data samples, uplink signals transmitted from one or more user equipment devices to a base station,
• compute frequency domain samples from the identified data samples,
• partitioning the identified data samples and the frequency domain samples into spectrum tiles,
• statistically aggregate the spectrum tiles in a frequency domain to reduce a quantity of the frequency domain samples,
• apply a clustering algorithm to the statistically aggregated spectrum tiles to determine clustered spectrum tiles, and
• identify unique instances of the one or more user equipment devices from the clustered spectrum tiles.

A system for identifying wireless devices, comprising:

• one or more radio frequency sensor antennas within an electromagnetic environment;
• one or more operator interfaces for communicating information associated with wireless devices;
• and
• a signal analysis engine comprising one or more processing units, and one or more processing modules configuring the one or more processing units to:
• receive, at one or more of the radio frequency sensor antennas, radio frequency signals associated with the wireless devices,
• generate data samples representing at least a portion of the radio frequency signals,
• identify, within the generated data samples, uplink signals associated with one or more of 4G, 5G, and LTE communications,
• compute frequency domain samples from the identified data samples,
• partitioning the identified data samples into spectrum tiles,
• statistically aggregate the spectrum tiles to reduce noise within the spectrum tiles,
• apply a clustering algorithm to the statistically aggregated spectrum tiles to determine clustered spectrum tiles, and
• present the clustered spectrum tiles to the one or more operator interfaces as identified wireless devices within the electromagnetic environment.