Electronic device, spectrum management method, and control method
The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a spectrum management method, and a control method. According to one embodiment, an electronic device used for spectrum management comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to acquire the interference relationships between radio access nodes managed by a first level spectrum management device, said radio access nodes comprising radio access nodes managed respectively by different second level spectrum management devices. The processing circuit is further configured to allocate, based on the acquired interference relationships, multiplex spectrum resources to radio access nodes that do not interfere with each other, and orthogonal spectrum resources to radio access nodes that do interfere with each other.
1. An electronic device for spectrum management, comprising:
processing circuitry configured to
based on spectrum resources allocated by a first-level spectrum management device, allocate respective spectrum resources for wireless access nodes managed by second-level spectrum management devices,
wherein the spectrum resources allocated by the first-level spectrum management device are allocated based on an interference relationship between the wireless access nodes managed by the second-level spectrum management devices,
wherein the wireless access nodes managed by the second-level spectrum management devices comprise:
wireless access nodes which do not interfere with each other, and
wireless access nodes which do interfere with each other, and
wherein the allocated respective spectrum resources comprise:
multiplexed spectrum resources for the wireless access nodes which do not interfere with each other, and
orthogonal spectrum resources for the wireless access nodes which do interfere with each other.
2. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein in a case where two second-level spectrum management devices can coordinate usages of spectrums with each other, the first-level spectrum management device allocates non-orthogonal spectrum resources for wireless access nodes managed by the two second-level spectrum management devices.
3. The electronic device according to claim 2 , wherein the first-level spectrum management device calculates a minimum chromatic number of a co-existence group graph in a connected set, and a chromatic number of wireless access nodes which do not belong to a co-existence group.
4. The electronic device according to claim 2 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to perform control to send, to the first-level spectrum management device, information indicating that a current second-level spectrum management device can perform the coordination with another second-level spectrum management device.
5. The electronic device according to claim 2 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to: determine, according to performance requirements, whether it is necessary to perform the coordination with another second-level spectrum management device, after a current second-level spectrum management device acquires available spectrum resources from the first-level spectrum management device.
6. The electronic device according to claim 2 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to: in a case where the first-level spectrum management device allocates available spectrum resources by regarding as a same co-existence group wireless access nodes managed by a current second-level spectrum management device and another second-level spectrum management device, allocate respective spectrum resources for wireless access nodes in the same co-existence group.
7. The electronic device according to claim 2 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to: in a case where the first-level spectrum management device allocates available spectrum resources by regarding as a same co-existence group wireless access nodes managed by a current second-level spectrum management device and another second-level spectrum management device, perform control to receive, from the another second-level spectrum management device, information about allocation of respective spectrum resources for wireless access nodes in the same co-existence group.
8. A spectrum management method, comprising:
based on spectrum resources allocated by a first-level spectrum management device, allocating respective spectrum resources for wireless access nodes managed by second-level spectrum management devices,
wherein the spectrum resources allocated by the first-level spectrum management device are allocated based on an interference relationship between the wireless access nodes managed by the second-level spectrum management devices,
wherein the wireless access nodes managed by the second-level spectrum management devices comprise:
wireless access nodes which do not interfere with each other, and
wireless access nodes which do interfere with each other, and
wherein the allocated respective spectrum resources comprise:
multiplexed spectrum resources for the wireless access nodes which do not interfere with each other, and
orthogonal spectrum resources for the wireless access nodes which do interfere with each other.
9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein in a case where two second-level spectrum management devices can coordinate usages of spectrums with each other, the first-level spectrum management device allocates non-orthogonal spectrum resources for wireless access nodes managed by the two second-level spectrum management devices.
10. An electronic device for a wireless access node, comprising:
processing circuitry configured to perform control to
request a spectrum resource from a first-level spectrum management device; and
receive information about allocation of spectrum resource from the first-level spectrum management device or from a second-level spectrum management device,
wherein the spectrum resource is allocated based on an interference relationship between the wireless access nodes managed by the second-level spectrum management devices,
wherein the wireless access nodes managed by the second-level spectrum management devices comprise:
wireless access nodes which do not interfere with each other, and
wireless access nodes which do interfere with each other, and
wherein the allocated respective spectrum resources comprise:
multiplexed spectrum resources for the wireless access nodes which do not interfere with each other, and
orthogonal spectrum resources are the wireless access nodes which do interfere with each other.
11. The electronic device according to claim 10 , wherein in a case where two second-level spectrum management devices can coordinate usages of spectrums with each other, the first-level spectrum management device allocates non-orthogonal spectrum resources for wireless access nodes managed by the two second-level spectrum management devices.