Dynamic beam blanking and spectrum reservation for direct to cellmobile satellite communications

A system for dynamic beam blanking in a network, the system comprising:

• a user equipment (UE) storing instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
• transmitting, by the UE, at least one uplink message to an access point using a neighboring co-channel antenna beam;
• and
• receiving, from the access point, a beam blanking command to cease using the neighboring co-channel antenna beam.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• determining, at an access point, bandwidth usage of primary antenna beam of the access point exceeds a predetermined usage threshold;
• blanking at least one neighboring co-channel antenna beam based on the bandwidth usage of the primary antenna beam exceeding the predetermined usage threshold;
• and
• assigning bandwidth of the at least one neighboring co-channel antenna beam to the bandwidth of the primary antenna beam.