Capacity sharing between wireless systems

摘要

Systems and methods presented herein provide for capacity sharing between wireless systems. One wireless telecommunications system includes a plurality of base stations and a Mobile Central Office (MCO) communicatively coupled to each of the base stations. Each base station is operable to handle a session from a wireless device and to handoff the session to another of the base stations when the wireless device moves into a range of the other wireless base station. The MCO is operable to detect capacity on a first of the base stations, to request capacity from another wireless system in response to detecting the capacity on the first base station, to acquire at least a portion of the requested capacity from the other wireless system, and to direct the wireless device to communicate via the capacity acquired from the other wireless system.

主权项

1. A wireless telecommunications system, comprising:
a plurality of wireless base stations, wherein each wireless base station is operable to handle a session from a wireless device and to handoff the session to another of the wireless base stations when the wireless device moves into a range of the other wireless base station; and a Mobile Central Office (MCO) communicatively coupled to each of the wireless base stations and operable to detect capacity on a first of the wireless base stations, to automatically acquire at least a portion of the detected capacity of another wireless system, and to direct the wireless device to communicate via the capacity acquired from the other wireless system, wherein the first wireless base station comprises a Wireless Access Point (WAP) operable in a WiFi band, the WAP comprising: a WiFi receiver operable to detect one or more WiFi networks proximate thereto; a WiFi transmitter operable to communicate frequency spectrum usage of the first wireless base station to the one or more WiFi networks proximate thereto; a Long Term Evolution (LTE) receiver to detect LTE frequency spectrum usage proximate thereto; and an LTE transmitter to broadcast frequency spectrum usage of the WAP to an LTE wireless system.