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 electromagnetic environment data and create measured data based on the electromagnetic environment;
at least one data analysis engine configured to analyze the measured data, thereby creating analyzed data; and
a channelization engine operable to prepare and/or divide at least one spectrum into a plurality of spectrum bands based on the analyzed data.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the channelization engine includes a frequency domain programmable channelizer configured to classify the analyzed data.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the channelization engine is operable to provide 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 is operable to provide 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 analyzed data undergoes In-phase and Quadrature (I, Q) buffering and masking.
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 a blind detection engine and/or a blind classification engine.
13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one data analysis engine includes 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 classify the analyzed data.
15. A system for spectrum channelization in an electromagnetic environment comprising:
at least one sensor operable to create measured data based on data received from the electromagnetic environment;
at least one data analysis engine configured to analyze the measured data, thereby creating analyzed data; and
a channelization engine operable to prepare and/or divide at least one spectrum into a plurality of spectrum bands based on the analyzed data;
wherein the at least one sensor is in communication with the at least one data analysis engine; and
wherein the at least one data analysis engine is in communication with the channelization engine.
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 at least one data analysis engine and the at least one sensor are combined in a single chip, a single chipset, multiple chips, multiple chipsets, or provided on a single circuit board.
18. A method for spectrum channelization in an electromagnetic environment comprising:
capturing electromagnetic environment data using at least one monitoring sensor that includes at least one receiver channel, thereby creating measured data based on the electromagnetic environment;
analyzing the measured data using at least one data analysis engine, thereby creating analyzed data; and
preparing and/or dividing at least one spectrum into a plurality of spectrum bands using a channelization engine based on the analyzed data;
wherein the at least one monitoring sensor is in communication with the at least one data analysis engine; and
wherein the at least one data analysis engine is in communication with the channelization engine.
19. The method of claim 18 , further comprising classifying the analyzed data using the channelization engine, wherein the channelization engine includes a frequency domain programmable channelizer.
20. The method of claim 18 , wherein the channelization engine includes at least one fast Fourier transform (FFT) configuration, further comprising the FFT configuration resolving ambiguities between at least two channels by employing a sufficient resolution bandwidth.