System, method, and apparatus for providing optimized network resources

A system for dynamic spectrum utilization management in a radio frequency (RF) environment comprising:

• at least one RF sensor operable to monitor the RF environment and to create RF data;
• a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) engine operable to perform an FFT on the RF data and to create frequency domain information;
• at least one data analysis engine operable to analyze the frequency domain information;
• a Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) layer in a network slice or a subnetwork, wherein the MEC layer is in communication with a radio access network (RAN) and a core network;
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• a wireless network resource optimization application in the MEC layer;
• wherein the at least one data analysis engine includes a programmable frequency domain channelizer engine, a detection engine, and a learning engine, wherein the detection engine is operable to automatically detect at least one signal of interest, and wherein the learning engine is operable to learn the electromagnetic environment;
• wherein the wireless network resource optimization application is operable to use analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine to create actionable data for optimizing network resources;
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• wherein the at least one monitoring sensor and/or the FFT engine are provided in a single chip, a single chipset, multiple chips, multiple chipsets, or on a single circuit board.

A method for dynamic spectrum utilization management in an electromagnetic environment comprising:

• providing a Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) layer in a network slice or a subnetwork and a wireless network resource optimization application in the MEC layer, wherein the MEC layer is in communication with a radio access network (RAN) and a core network, wherein the wireless network resource optimization application includes a programmable rules and policy editor, wherein the programmable rules and policy editor includes at least one rule and/or at least one policy;
• monitoring the electromagnetic environment using at least one monitoring sensor to create measured data;
• performing a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on the measured data using an FFT engine to create frequency domain information;
• analyzing the frequency domain information using at least one data analysis engine to create analyzed data, wherein the at least one data analysis engine includes a programmable frequency domain channelizer engine, a detection engine, and a learning engine;
• learning the electromagnetic environment using the learning engine;
• automatically detecting at least one signal of interest using the detection engine;
• the wireless network resource optimization application using analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine to create actionable data;
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• optimizing network resources using the actionable data;
• wherein the at least one monitoring sensor and/or the FFT engine are provided in a single chip, a single chipset, multiple chips, multiple chipsets, or on a single circuit board.