Systems and methods for subscriber-centric dynamic spectrum management

1. A radio spectrum management system, comprising:

a radio spectrum gateway coupled to a radio access network that receives bandwidth requests from subscriber devices and provides bandwidth allocation decisions to the radio access network;

a radio spectrum management server that receives bandwidth requests from the radio spectrum gateway and provides bandwidth allocation decisions to the radio spectrum gateway based on radio resources and bandwidth policy decisions; and

a radio spectrum policy management server that provides bandwidth policy decisions to the radio spectrum server based on characteristics of a requesting subscriber, the characteristics including one or more of subscription information, historical usage information and current usage information that are associated with the subscriber, where the subscription information includes entitlements, allowed service types, allowed device identifiers, allowed subscription identifiers, and billing information.

2. The radio spectrum management system of claim 1 , further comprising a subscriber profile database that can be enabled to include subscriber characteristics.

3. The radio spectrum management system of claim 1 , wherein the bandwidth allocated to a user for a requested service is based on one or more of a subscriber profile, a subscriber device, application provider profile of an application provider providing the requested service, and a service requested.

4. A method, comprising:

receiving by a radio spectrum gateway coupled to a radio access network bandwidth requests from subscriber devices and providing by the radio spectrum gateway bandwidth allocation decisions to the radio access network;

receiving by a radio spectrum management server bandwidth requests from the radio spectrum gateway and providing by the radio spectrum management server bandwidth allocation decisions to the radio spectrum gateway based on radio resources and bandwidth policy decisions; and

providing by a radio spectrum policy management server that bandwidth policy decisions to the radio spectrum server based on characteristics of a requesting subscriber, the characteristics including one or more of subscription information, historical usage information and current usage information that are associated with the subscriber, where the subscription information includes entitlements, allowed service types, allowed device identifiers, allowed subscription identifiers, and billing information.

5. A method for dynamically allocating radio spectrum to a first subscriber within a wireless network from a second subscriber within the wireless network comprising:

allocating bandwidth to the first subscriber from a second subscriber, based on a determination that bandwidth allocated to the second subscriber no longer efficiently supports a use for which it was allocated due to a reduction in signal quality;

allocating bandwidth to the first subscriber from the second subscriber based on a comparison of respective subscriber entitlements, respective subscriber satisfaction levels, and respective application service provider entitlements;

receiving a request for an application from the first subscriber;

generating a bandwidth allocation policy decision based on characteristics of the first subscriber and characteristics of an application service provider that provides the requested application;

receiving a request from the application service provider for a specific quality of service; and

factoring the request for the specific quality of service into a decision process for generating a service profile.