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 management in an electromagnetic environment comprising:
a radio receiver front-end subsystem configured to process measured data from the electromagnetic environment, wherein the radio receiver front-end subsystem includes a frequency domain programmable channelizer;
at least one data analysis engine for analyzing the processed data to create analyzed data; and
at least one application operable to optimize performance of a device or a resource;
wherein the analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine is used to create actionable data for optimizing the performance of the device or the resource.
2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising at least one monitoring sensor for creating the measured data, wherein the at least one monitoring sensor includes at least one antenna, at least one antenna array, at least one radio server, and/or at least one software defined radio.
3. The system of claim 2 , wherein one or more of the at least one monitoring sensor is mounted on a drone, on a vehicle, in or on a street light, in or on a traffic pole, and/or on top of a building.
4. The system of claim 2 , wherein one or more of the at least one monitoring sensor is integrated with at least one camera to capture video and/or still images.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the frequency domain programmable channelizer includes a comparison at each receiver channel, and wherein the comparison provides anomalous detection using a mask with frequency and power.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the frequency domain programmable channelizer includes buffer services, pre-processing, bin selection, at least one bandpass filter, an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) function, decomposition, frequency down conversion, and/or phase correction.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the frequency domain programmable channelizer includes channelization selector logic for a table lookup of filter coefficient and channelization vectors.
8. The system of claim 7 , 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.
9. The system of claim 8 , wherein a sum is taken of a block of the plurality of blocks and an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) is taken of a point of the plurality of points to produce discor overlap samples, and wherein the discor overlap samples are transmitted to a classification engine.
10. The system of claim 1 , further comprising at least one tip and cue server, wherein the at least one tip and cue server is operable to create the actionable data from the analyzed data.
11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one application is further operable to determine if the at least one customer application and/or the at least one customer device is behaving according to at least one rule and/or at least one policy.
12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one application is further operable to determine frequency band occupancy and schedule occupancy in at least one frequency band.
13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the actionable data is used to generate at least one knowledge-based decision tree.
14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the actionable data is based on at least one customer goal.
15. The system of claim 1 , wherein the actionable data indicates a location for at least one macrosite and/or at least one tower.
16. A system for spectrum management in an electromagnetic environment comprising:
a radio receiver front-end subsystem configured to process measured data from the electromagnetic environment, thereby creating processed data, wherein the radio receiver front-end subsystem includes a frequency domain programmable channelizer;
at least one data analysis engine for analyzing the processed data to create analyzed data; and
an application operable to determine frequency band occupancy and schedule occupancy in at least one frequency band;
wherein the analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine is used to create actionable data.
17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the frequency domain programmable channelizer includes a comparison at each receiver channel, and wherein the comparison provides anomalous detection using a mask with frequency and power.
18. The system of claim 16 , further comprising at least one tip and cue server, wherein the at least one tip and cue server is operable to create the actionable data from the analyzed data.
19. A method for spectrum management in an electromagnetic environment comprising:
processing measured data from the electromagnetic environment using a radio receiver front-end subsystem, thereby creating processed data, wherein the radio receiver front-end subsystem includes a frequency domain programmable channelizer;
analyzing the processed data using at least one data analysis engine, thereby creating analyzed data;
creating actionable data for optimizing performance of at least one application and/or at least one device based on the analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine; and
optimizing resources to improve performance of the at least one application and/or the at least one device.
20. The method of claim 19 , further including the frequency domain programmable channelizer performing a comparison at each receiver channel, and wherein the comparison provides anomalous detection using a mask with frequency and power.