System and method for autonomous dynamic wireless spectrum assignment

摘要

A system and method for autonomous dynamic spectrum assignment for operating and configuring a cellular wireless communication network, employing multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs). The method consists of: partitioning the system radio frequency resources (spectrum) into fixed and pooled spectrum blocks; autonomously assigning pooled spectrum blocks at individual system access points or radio units or groups thereof; dynamically adapting the assignment of pooled spectrum blocks at individual system APs/RUs or groups of APs/RUs; implementation of the pooled block assignment function and integration with radio resource assignment functions of co-deployed RATs.

主权项

1. A system for autonomous spectrum assignment for a cellular wireless communication network, the system comprising a cellular communication network access point configured to support a plurality of radio access technologies, and a computing device comprising a radio resource management unit, the cellular communication network access point in communication with the radio resource management unit, the radio resource management unit configured to:
receive an available spectrum for the cellular communication network access point to be made accessible over the plurality of radio access technologies; segment the available spectrum into a plurality of spectrum blocks comprising a set of fixed blocks and a set of pooled blocks; assign at least one of the fixed blocks to each of the plurality of radio access technologies; determine traffic conditions for the plurality of radio access technologies; and assign each of the pooled blocks to one of the radio access technologies on the basis of the traffic conditions, the pooled blocks are commonly assigned based on communications with additional radio resource management units on additional computing devices such that each radio resource management unit is in communication with a different pool of at least one cellular communication network access point.