Multidimensional shared spectrum access

A communications system for a hybrid communications network designed to support both radar and radio communications devices, the communications system including algorithms implementing a shared source allocation protocol shared by both radio and radar communications devices which, for both radar and radio devices joining the network, automatically allocates communication resources for transmitting and/or receiving a signal based on a dimensions of separability for the signal, the dimensions of separability selected from time-division, frequency-division, spatial-division and/or code-division multiplexing, wherein the resource allocation protocol accounts for both radar specific operational parameters and radio specific operational parameters of the communications network;

• wherein the resource allocation protocol is implemented by each device in the network including both radar and radio devices having a common medium access control (MAC);
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• wherein the resource allocation protocol is further implemented by each the network including both radar and radio devices having a common resource allocation manager (RAM) implementing resource allocation algorithms based on a pseudorandom hashing algorithm that awards communication resources to each device in the network resources based on preprogrammed allocation parameters and a current world view of other devices in the network.