System, method, and apparatus for providing optimized network resources
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing optimization of network resources. The system is operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment, analyze the electromagnetic environment, and extract environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment. The system extracts the environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment by including customer goals. The system is operable to use the environmental awareness with the customer goals and/or user defined policies and rules to extract actionable information to help the customer optimize the network resources.
1. A system for dynamic spectrum utilization management in an electromagnetic environment comprising:
a Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) layer in a network slice or a subnetwork;
a wireless network resource optimization application configured to receive measured data from the electromagnetic environment; and
at least one data analysis engine for analyzing the measured data to create analyzed data;
wherein the analyzed data is represented in a vector ensemble class for each signal in the electromagnetic environment;
wherein the wireless network resource optimization application is operable to use the analyzed data and a customer goals index vector to create actionable data for optimizing network resources; and
wherein the customer goals index vector is a vector of binary values.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the actionable data for optimizing network resources includes data for reconfiguring at least one parameter of a network.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the actionable data for optimizing network resources includes data for changing at least one physical layer parameter of one or more customer devices and/or applications.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least one monitoring sensor creates the measured data, and wherein the at least one monitoring sensor is included in a base station and/or at least one spectrum monitoring unit.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one data analysis engine further includes a detection engine, an identification engine, a learning engine, a classification engine, and/or a geolocation engine.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the MEC layer includes a MEC orchestrator operable to interact as an application function with a network exposure function (NEF).
7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the NEF is configured to access a policy control function (PCF) operable to manage rules and policies.
8. The system of claim 6 , wherein the NEF provides network information to the MEC layer.
9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the wireless network resource optimization application generates at least one radio access network (RAN) command to change at least one RAN parameter.
10. The system of claim 1 , further comprising at least one RAN interface operable to provide resource allocation recommendations.
11. A system for dynamic spectrum utilization management in an electromagnetic environment comprising:
at least one monitoring sensor operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment and to create measured data;
a Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) layer;
a wireless network resource optimization application configured to receive the measured data; and
at least one data analysis engine for analyzing the measured data to create analyzed data;
wherein the analyzed data is represented in a vector ensemble class for each signal in the electromagnetic environment;
wherein the wireless network resource optimization application is operable to use the analyzed data and a customer goals index vector to create actionable data for optimizing network resources; and
wherein the customer goals index vector is a vector of binary values.
12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the MEC layer includes a MEC orchestrator operable to interact as an application function with a network exposure function (NEF).
13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the NEF provides network information to the MEC layer.
14. The system of claim 11 , wherein the wireless network resource optimization application is operable to activate an alarm.
15. The system of claim 11 , wherein the at least one data analysis engine further includes a detection engine, a learning engine, an identification engine, a classification engine, and/or a geolocation engine.
16. The system of claim 11 , wherein the wireless network resource optimization application creates the actionable data in real time or in near-real time.
17. The system of claim 11 , further comprising a machine learning (ML) engine operable to learn the electromagnetic environment and make predictions about the electromagnetic environment.
18. The system of claim 11 , wherein the at least one monitoring sensor is included in a base station and/or at least one spectrum monitoring unit.
19. A method for dynamic spectrum utilization management in an electromagnetic environment comprising:
obtaining electromagnetic environmental awareness information in a vector ensemble class for each signal in the electromagnetic environment;
analyzing each signal for possible interactions based on center frequency or bandwidth;
creating a set by adding the possible interactions to the vector ensemble class; and
combining the set with a customer goals index vector to create actionable data for optimization of network resources of the wireless network;
wherein the customer goals index vector is a vector of binary values.
20. The method of claim 19 , further comprising optimizing the network resources by changing at least one physical layer parameter of one or more customer devices and/or applications or by reconfiguring at least one parameter of a network.