Peer-To-Peer Control Network For A Wireless Radio Access Network
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1. A peer-to-peer control network for a wireless radio access network, comprising:
- a peer TV band sensing engine that collects TV band spectrum occupancy information;
a peer geolocation engine that collects geolocation information from the base stations and the TV band devices in the wireless radio access network; and
a peer spectrum manager and base station controller having a communications link to a white space database server, and a processor that processes spectrum occupancy information received from the peer TV band sensing engine, the peer geolocation engine, and the white space database, and allocates white space spectrum to at least one base station and TV band devices associated with the at least one base station.
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Abstract
A spectrum manager and base station controller for a wireless radio access network allocates TV band white space to all TV band devices under its control using: an allocation policy; information pulled/pushed from a white space database, spectrum usage data supplied by a spectrum sensing engine, and information received from at least one other peer spectrum manager and base station controller for the wireless radio access network.
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20 Claims
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1. A peer-to-peer control network for a wireless radio access network, comprising:
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a peer TV band sensing engine that collects TV band spectrum occupancy information; a peer geolocation engine that collects geolocation information from the base stations and the TV band devices in the wireless radio access network; and a peer spectrum manager and base station controller having a communications link to a white space database server, and a processor that processes spectrum occupancy information received from the peer TV band sensing engine, the peer geolocation engine, and the white space database, and allocates white space spectrum to at least one base station and TV band devices associated with the at least one base station. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of controlling TV band white space spectrum usage by base stations of a remote wireless access network, comprising:
provisioning the remote wireless access network with a peer-to-peer control network that comprises peer spectrum manager and base station controllers respectively having a communications link to a white space database server, and a processor that processes TV band spectrum occupancy information received from peer TV Band sensing engines, peer geolocation engines, and the white space database, and allocate the TV band white space spectrum to the base stations and TV band devices associated with the base stations based on the TV band spectrum occupancy information. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12)
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13. The method as claimed in claim 13 wherein the peer spectrum managers respectively optimize the interference environment associated with any base stations for which the TV band white space spectrum allocations were re-computed.
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14. A spectrum manager and base station controller in a peer-to-peer control network for a TV band white space wireless radio access network, comprising:
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a TV band white space allocation policy; a communications link to a white space database server; and a processor that processes spectrum occupancy information received from a peer TV band sensing engine, a peer geolocation engine, and the white space database, and allocates white space spectrum to the base station and TV band devices associated with the base station. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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