System and method for managing spectrum allocation
AssigneeSpectrum Bride, Inc.
InventorsPeter Stanforth, Mario A. Camchong, Santosh Hari
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Abstract
Disclosed are techniques for managing situations where spectrum use by one party is preempted by spectrum needs of another party. A revocation may be sent from a spectrum management system to secondary radio systems that are impacted by the presence of priority radio system. Remedial action may be taken if an acknowledgement of the revocation message is not received from a secondary radio system. Also, the secondary radio systems may transmit keep-alive messages to monitor operation of the communication pathway for the revocation messages.
Claims14
A spectrum management system for radio systems, comprising:
- an interface to communicate with the radio systems over a network;
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- a processor that executes a spectrum allocation function that is stored in a memory and, by execution of the spectrum allocation function, the spectrum management system is configured to:
- provide a spectrum certificate to a secondary radio system, the spectrum certificate defining spectrum that is available for use by the secondary radio system for wireless communications;
- receive data indicating that a priority radio system having spectrum use rights that dominate spectrum use rights of the secondary radio system has a need for spectrum;
- determine that the ability of the secondary radio system to use some of the spectrum defined by the spectrum certificate is impacted by the priority radio system due to location of the second radio system and potential contention with operation of the priority radio system;
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- communicate with the impacted secondary radio systems to free spectrum from the impacted secondary radio system for use by the priority radio system, wherein the communication is a change in the spectrum certificate that permits continued operation under the spectrum certificate by the secondary radio system.
A spectrum management system for radio systems, comprising:
- an interface to communicate with the radio systems over a network;
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- a processor that executes a spectrum allocation function that is stored in a memory and, by execution of the spectrum allocation function, the spectrum management system is configured to:
- provide a spectrum certificate to a secondary radio system, the spectrum certificate defining spectrum that is available for use by the secondary radio system for wireless communications;
- receive data indicating that a priority radio system having spectrum use rights that dominate spectrum use rights of the secondary radio system has a need for spectrum;
- determine that the ability of the secondary radio system to use at least some of the spectrum defined by the spectrum certificate is impacted by the priority radio system due to location of the second radio system and potential contention with operation of the priority radio system;
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- receive a message from the secondary radio system, and if the secondary radio system is impacted then not responding to the message as a command to the secondary radio system to terminate use of at least some of the spectrum specified in the spectrum certificate, and if the secondary radio system is not impacted then responding to the message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.