Methods, systems, and computer readable media for selecting wireless channel bandwidth based on data-usage tendency of user equipment

摘要

Systems, computer-readable media, and methods for selecting channel bandwidths to a user equipment (UE) device for carrying out a communication session. Selection of the channel bandwidth can be based on a data-usage tendency of the UE device. The data-usage tendency can indicate a data-usage rate of the UE device or a set of user equipment devices similar to the UE device. The channel bandwidth can comprise a plurality of subcarriers. Two or more of the subcarriers can be adjacent to one another or be separated by one or more subcarriers of a channel bandwidth assigned or assignable to another UE device for another communication session. A processor that selects the channel bandwidth can further base its selection on a service plan associated with the UE device and load conditions of frequency bands of a radio access network.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a radio access network (RAN) controller programmed to assign radio frequency band resources of a radio access node to wireless user equipment (UE) devices, a request to use the RAN to carry out a wireless communication session between a first wireless UE device and at least one other device, wherein the radio frequency band resources of the radio access node include multiple radio frequency bands, and wherein each radio frequency band of the multiple radio frequency bands includes multiple channels with different bandwidths; identifying, by the RAN controller after receiving the request to use the RAN to carry out the wireless communication session between the first wireless UE device and at least one other device but prior to the RAN controller assigning a selected bandwidth of a wireless channel of a selected radio frequency band to the first wireless UE device for carrying out the communication session, the first wireless UE device is a same type of wireless UE device as a plurality of wireless UE devices; determining, by the RAN controller, an average data-usage tendency at a per wireless UE device level of the plurality of wireless UE devices identified as being the same type of wireless UE device as the first wireless UE device; selecting, by the RAN controller in response to receiving the request to use the RAN and based on the determined average data-usage tendency at the per wireless UE device level of the plurality of wireless UE devices, both the selected radio frequency band from among the multiple radio frequency bands of the radio frequency band resources of the radio access node, and the selected bandwidth of the wireless channel within the selected radio frequency band, for assigning to the first wireless UE device; and assigning, by the RAN controller to the first wireless UE device for carrying out the communication session, the selected bandwidth of the wireless channel of the selected radio frequency band.