System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
1. A system for spectrum channelization in an electromagnetic environment comprising:
at least one monitoring sensor including at least one receiver channel operable to monitor and capture the electromagnetic environment and create measured data based on the electromagnetic environment;
a radio receiver front-end subsystem configured to process the measured data, thereby creating processed data; and
a channelization engine operable to prepare and/or divide a spectrum into a plurality of spectrum bands based on the processed data;
wherein the system is combined in a single chip, a single chipset, multiple chips, multiple chipsets, or provided on a single circuit board.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the channelization engine includes a frequency domain programmable channelizer configured to analyze the processed data.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the channelization engine includes buffer services, pre-processing of fast Fourier transform (FFT) bin samples, bin selection, at least one band pass filter (BPF), an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) function to produce at least one IFFT, decomposition, and/or frequency down conversion and phase correction.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the channelization engine includes a comparison at the at least one receiver channel, and wherein the comparison provides anomalous detection using a mask with frequency and power.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the channelization engine includes channelization selector logic for a table lookup of filter coefficient and channelization vectors.
6. The system of claim 5 , wherein data from the table lookup of filter coefficient and channelization vectors undergoes preprocessing with a mix circular rotator to produce a plurality of blocks of a plurality of points.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein data from the channelization engine undergoes an N point fast Fourier transform (FFT), wherein a power spectral density (PSD) is calculated for the N point FFT, wherein a complex average FFT is obtained for a plurality of blocks of the N point FFT.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the channelization engine includes at least one channel definition, at least one channelization vector, at least one fast Fourier transform (FFT) configuration, at least one deference matrix, at least one detector configuration, and/or at least one channel detection.
9. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a noise floor estimator operable to estimate a bin-wise noise model, estimate a bin-wise noise plus signal model, determine a bin-level probability of false alarm, a bin-level threshold, a channel-level probability of false alarm, a channel-level level threshold, calculate a detection vector, count a number of elements above the bin-level threshold, determine a probability of false alarm, determine a probability of missed detection, and/or determine an overall detection probability.
10. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a blind detection engine operable to estimate a number of channels, corresponding bandwidths for the number of channels, and/or center frequencies using an averaged power spectral density (PSD) of at least one signal of interest.
11. The system of claim 1 , further including a classification engine, wherein the classification engine is operable to generate a query to a static database to classify at least one signal of interest based on information from a frequency domain programmable channelizer.
12. The system of claim 1 , further including at least one power supply, at least one power controller, and/or at least one power manager.
13. The system of claim 1 , further including at least one data analysis engine, a semantic engine, and/or an optimization engine.
14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the channelization engine includes a time domain programmable channelizer configured to analyze the processed data.
15. A system for spectrum channelization in an electromagnetic environment comprising:
at least one monitoring sensor including at least one receiver channel operable to monitor and capture the electromagnetic environment and create measured data based on the electromagnetic environment;
a radio receiver front-end subsystem configured to process the measured data, thereby creating processed data; and
a channelization engine operable to prepare and/or divide a spectrum into a plurality of spectrum bands based on the processed data;
wherein the monitoring sensor is in communication with the radio receiver front-end subsystem;
wherein the radio receiver front-end subsystem is in communication with the channelization engine; and
wherein the channelization engine is cloud-based.
16. The system of claim 15 , wherein the channelization engine includes at least one fast Fourier transform (FFT) configuration operable to resolve ambiguities between at least two channels by employing a sufficient resolution bandwidth.
17. The system of claim 15 , wherein the radio receiver front-end subsystem and the monitoring sensor are combined in a single chip, a single chipset, multiple chips, multiple chipsets, or provided on a single circuit board.
18. A system for spectrum channelization in an electromagnetic environment comprising:
at least one monitoring sensor including at least one receiver channel operable to monitor and capture the electromagnetic environment and create measured data based on the electromagnetic environment;
a radio receiver front-end subsystem configured to process the measured data, thereby creating processed data;
a blind detection engine and/or a noise floor estimator; and
a channelization engine operable to prepare and/or divide a spectrum into a plurality of spectrum bands based on the processed data;
wherein the monitoring sensor is in communication with the radio receiver front-end subsystem;
wherein the radio receiver front-end subsystem is in communication with the channelization engine; and
wherein the channelization engine is cloud-based.
19. The system of claim 18 , wherein the channelization engine includes a frequency domain programmable channelizer configured to analyze the processed data.
20. The system of claim 18 , wherein the channelization engine includes at least one fast Fourier transform (FFT) configuration operable to resolve ambiguities between at least two channels by employing a sufficient resolution bandwidth.