Citizens broadband radio service channel selection for cellular communication networks

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

• selecting a citizens broadband radio service frequency for use by a radio unit of a cellular communication network, wherein selecting the citizens broadband radio service frequency comprises:
• determining whether transmissions of the radio unit are restricted due to a dynamic protection area, wherein radio unit use of citizens broadband radio service frequencies within the dynamic protection area is terminable by a device associated with an incumbent user;
• in response to the transmissions of the radio unit being restricted due to the dynamic protection area, predicting a reclaimable citizens broadband radio service frequency based on a previous use of the reclaimable citizens broadband radio service frequency by the device associated with the incumbent user;
• acquiring a list of available citizens broadband radio service frequencies that are available for use by the radio unit;
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• identifying the citizens broadband radio service frequency from a group of the available citizens broadband radio service frequencies, wherein the group excludes the reclaimable citizens broadband radio service frequency;
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• selecting, from the group, a citizens broadband radio service frequency for use by the radio unit.

A system, comprising at least one processor configured to process executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

• receiving radio unit information associated with at least one radio unit;
• based on the radio unit information, determining whether at least one first citizens broadband radio service transmission associated with the at least one radio unit is threshold likely to interfere with at least one second citizens broadband radio service transmission within at least one protection area;
• responsive to at least one of the at least one first citizens broadband radio service transmission being determined to be threshold likely to interfere with at least one of the at least one second citizens broadband radio service transmission within the protection area, predicting at least one reclaimable citizens broadband radio service channel associated with the at least one protection area to result in at least one predicted reclaimable citizens broadband radio service channel;
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• based on the at least one predicted reclaimable citizens broadband radio service channel, selecting at least one citizens broadband radio service channel for use by the at least one radio unit to result in at least one selected citizens broadband radio service channel, wherein the at least one selected citizens broadband radio service channel comprises at least one citizens broadband radio service channel other than the at least one predicted reclaimable citizens broadband radio service channel.