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 . An apparatus for spectrum channelization in an electromagnetic environment comprising:
at least one radiofrequency (RF) chipset comprising a central processing unit (CPU), an RF general purpose processing unit (RFGPPU), at least one data analysis engine, and at least one channelization engine;
wherein the at least one data analysis engine is operable to receive measured data based on the electromagnetic environment;
wherein the at least one data analysis engine is configured to analyze the measured data to create analyzed data; and
wherein the at least one channelization engine is operable to prepare and/or divide at least one spectrum into a plurality of spectrum bands based on the analyzed data.
2 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the RFGPPU comprises a plurality of cores, wherein the plurality of cores is fewer than 281 cores.
3 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one 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 apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one channelization engine is operable to provide a comparison of at least one receiver channel, and wherein the comparison provides anomalous detection using a mask with frequency and power.
5 . The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a blind detection engine operable to detect at least one edge of at least one signal using a convolutional neural network (CNN).
6 . The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the blind detection engine is operable to detect at least one narrowband signal overlapping at least one wideband signal.
7 . The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the CPU and the RFGPPU are each equipped with separate onboard L1 and L2 caches and a shared L3 memory.
8 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein data from the at least one 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.
9 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one channelization engine includes a convolutional neural network (CNN) with less than 3 layers.
10 . The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the RF chipset offloads computation for the CNN from the CPU to the RFGPPU for more efficient parallel processing.
11 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one channelization engine is operable to use hypothesis testing for channel selection and/or to prepare and/or divide at least one spectrum into the plurality of spectrum bands.
12 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one data analysis engine includes a semantic engine and/or an optimization engine.
13 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one channelization engine includes a time domain programmable channelizer configured to classify the analyzed data.
14 . An apparatus for spectrum channelization in an electromagnetic environment comprising:
at least one radiofrequency (RF) chipset comprising at least one data analysis engine and at least one blind detection engine;
wherein the at least one data analysis engine is operable to receive measured data based on the electromagnetic environment;
wherein the at least one data analysis engine is configured to analyze the measured data to create analyzed data; and
wherein the at least one blind detection engine detects the at least one edge of the at least one signal using artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) analysis on the analyzed data.
15 . The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the at least one blind detection engine is operable to detect at least one narrowband signal overlapping at least one wideband signal.
16 . The apparatus of claim 14 , further comprising a channelization engine operable to prepare and/or divide at least one spectrum into a plurality of spectrum bands based on the analyzed data.
17 . The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the at least one RF chipset includes a central processing unit (CPU) and a radio frequency general purpose processing unit (RFGPPU), wherein the RFGPPU comprises a plurality of cores, wherein the plurality of cores is fewer than 281 cores.
18 . A method for spectrum channelization in an electromagnetic environment comprising:
receiving measured data based on the electromagnetic environment;
analyzing the measured data using at least one data analysis engine on at least one radiofrequency (RF) chipset to create analyzed data; and
preparing and/or dividing at least one spectrum into a plurality of spectrum bands using a channelization engine on the at least one RF chipset based on the analyzed data;
wherein the at least one data analysis engine is in communication with the channelization engine; and
wherein the at least one RF chipset includes a central processing unit (CPU) and a radio frequency general purpose processing unit (RFGPPU).
19 . The method of claim 18 , further comprising detecting at least one edge of at least one signal using a blind detection engine on the at least one RF chipset using artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) image analysis on at least one image of the at least one signal from the analyzed data.
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.