METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING RADIO AGENT DATA IN NETWORK ORGANIZATION OF DYNAMIC CHANNEL SELECTION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS
The present invention relates to wireless networks and more specifically to a method and apparatus for integrating spectrum data from a plurality of autonomous radio agents with a cloud-based data fusion and computing element that enables network self-organization and adaptive control of dynamic frequency selection in 802.11 ac/n and LTE-U networks. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a cloud intelligence engine communicatively coupled to a plurality of multi-channel DFS masters that is configured to receive spectral information from the plurality of multi-channel DFS masters, integrate the spectral information with other spectral information to generate integrated spectral information, and determine communication channels for the plurality of multi-channel DFS masters based at least on the integrated spectral information.
1 . A cloud intelligence engine communicatively coupled to a plurality of multi-channel DFS masters and configured to receive spectral information associated with a plurality of 5 GHz communication channels from the plurality of multi-channel DFS masters via one or more network devices, integrate the spectral information with other spectral information to generate integrated spectral information, and determine a communication channel preference list for the plurality of multi-channel DFS masters from the plurality of 5 GHz communication channels based at least on the integrated spectral information.