System and Method for Dynamic Coordination of Radio Resources Usage in a Wireless Network Environment

• US 20130003591A1
• Filed: 09/12/2012
• Published: 01/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Steer, David, Yu, Dongsheng, Novak, Robert
• Granted Patent: US 8,830,863 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/252
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/26 at least one of which is mobile
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0231 based on communication conditions dynamic wireless traffic scheduling definition based on channel quality criteria H04W72/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0252 per individual bearer or channel dynamic wireless traffic scheduling H04W72/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/06 Reselecting a communication resource in the serving access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/04 adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user

Abstract

An architecture, system and associated method for dynamic coordination of radio resource usage in a network environment. In one aspect, a method of processing sensory reports of one or more sensing elements in a radio network comprises receiving a sensory report from a sensing element operating in multiple radio access technologies, the sensory report including sensory data associated with multiple radio channels relative to at least one radio element; identifying the sensing element'"'"'s identity and determining if the sensory report has been tagged with a code generated by a predetermined code generator; responsive to the identifying and the determining, authenticating the sensory report; and correlating the sensory report from the sensing element with at least one of one or more previous sensory reports from the sensing element and one or more previous sensory reports received from another sensing element.

Claims

1. A method of processing sensory reports of one or more sensing elements in a radio network, said method comprising:

receiving a sensory report from a sensing element operating in multiple radio access technologies, said sensory report including sensory data associated with multiple radio channels relative to at least one radio element;

identifying said sensing element'"'"'s identity and determining if said sensory report has been tagged with a code generated by a predetermined code generator;

responsive to said identifying and said determining, authenticating said sensory report; and

correlating said sensory report from said sensing element with at least one of one or more previous sensory reports from said sensing element and one or more previous sensory reports received from another sensing element to facilitate alleviating interference or congestion.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising uploading said correlated sensory report to at least one of a local database and a remote database of a distributed channel occupancy and location database system associated with said radio network and an external database having channel occupancy data relating to an unlicensed spectrum.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising transmitting a control message to said sensing element, responsive at least in part to said correlated sensory report, for effectuating allocation of a radio resource to said sensing element.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising transmitting a control message to said at least one radio element, responsive at least in part to said correlated sensory report, for effectuating allocation of a radio resource to said at least one radio element.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said sensing element'"'"'s identity comprises at least one of a radio network temporary identifier and a serial number.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising determining that said code for tagging said sensory report was generated based on a known changing perturbation of said sensing element'"'"'s identity.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein said sensory report includes data associated with a particular radio channel of said multiple radio channels, said data comprising at least one of:

a location of said at least one radio element operating in said particular radio channel, an interference level of said particular radio channel, an interference signal bandwidth, a center frequency of a radio signal sensed in said particular radio channel, an type identification of a radio signal sensed in said particular radio channel, a radio access technology type associated with said particular radio channel, a network identifier associated with said particular radio channel, a transmitter identifier associated with said particular radio channel, a duty cycle of a radio signal sensed in said particular radio channel, and an expected duration of a radio signal sensed in said particular radio channel.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein said sensing element is at least one of a wireless user equipment device, a base station, a serving network node, a relay node, a femto cell, and an access point.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein said at least one radio element comprises a wireless user equipment device.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising issuing a periodic challenge to said sensing element and validating a response received from said sensing element responsive to said periodic challenge.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein said sensory report is received at a trusted node of said radio network, said trusted node being a node to which said sensing element has subscribed.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein said sensory report has been scrambled by a subscriber identifier of said sensing element.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein said sensory report is received via a screening node associated with said radio network, said screening node comprising at least one of a base station, an evolved node and a trusted node of said radio network.

14. The method of claim 1 further comprising transmitting a control message, responsive at least in part to said correlated sensory report, to a network node, said control message for effectuating allocation of a radio resource to at least one of said at least one radio element and said sensing element.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein said correlating said sensory report is based on using at least one of time stamp information associated with said one or more previous sensory reports from said sensing element and time stamp information associated with said one or more previous sensory reports from said another sensing element.

16. An apparatus for processing sensory reports of one or more sensing elements disposed in a radio network, said apparatus comprising:

a component configured to receive a sensory report from a sensing element operating in multiple radio access technologies, said sensory report including sensory data associated with multiple radio channels relative to at least one radio element;

a component configured to identify said sensing element'"'"'s identity and to determine if said sensory report has been tagged with a code generated by a predetermined code generator;

a component configured to authenticate said sensory report; and

a component configured to correlate said sensory report from said sensing element with at least one of one or more previous sensory reports from said sensing element and one or more previous sensory reports received from another sensing element to facilitate alleviating interference or congestion.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 further comprising a component configured to upload said correlated sensory report to at least one of a local database and a remote database of a distributed channel occupancy and location database system associated with said radio network and an external database having channel occupancy data relating to an unlicensed spectrum.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 further comprising a component configured to generate a control message to said sensing element, responsive at least in part to said correlated sensory report, said control message for effectuating allocation of a radio resource to said sensing element.

19. The apparatus of claim 16 further comprising a component configured to generate a control message to said at least one radio element, responsive at least in part to said correlated sensory report, said control message for effectuating allocation of a radio resource to said at least one radio element.

20. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein said sensing element'"'"'s identity comprises at least one of a radio network temporary identifier and a serial number.

21. The apparatus of claim 16 further comprising a component configured to determine that said code for tagging said sensory report was generated based on a changing perturbation of said sensing element'"'"'s identity.

22. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein said sensory report includes data associated with a particular radio channel of said multiple radio channels, said data comprising at least one of:

a location of said at least one radio element operating in said particular radio channel, an interference level of said particular radio channel, an interference signal bandwidth, a center frequency of a radio signal sensed in said particular radio channel, an type identification of a radio signal sensed in said particular radio channel, a radio access technology type associated with said particular radio channel, a network identifier associated with said particular radio channel, a transmitter identifier associated with said particular radio channel, a duty cycle of a radio signal sensed in said particular radio channel, and an expected duration of a radio signal sensed in said particular radio channel.

23. The apparatus of claim 16 further comprising a component configured to issue a periodic challenge to said sensing element and to validate a response received from said sensing element responsive to said periodic challenge.

24. The apparatus of claim 16 further comprising a component configured to determine that said sensing element is a subscriber to a trusted node of said radio network.

25. The apparatus of claim 16 further comprising a component configured to determine that said sensory report has been scrambled by a subscriber identifier of said sensing element.

26. The apparatus of claim 16 further comprising a component configured to determine that said sensory report is received from said sensing element, wherein said sensing element is a mobile device that operates as a proxy agent on behalf of another mobile device.

27. The apparatus of claim 16 further comprising a component configured to determine that said sensory report is received via a screening node associated with said radio network, said screening node comprising at least one of a base station, an evolved node and a trusted node of said radio network.

28. The apparatus of claim 21 further comprising a component configured to generate a control message, responsive at least in part to said correlated sensory report, to a network node, said control message for effectuating allocation of a radio resource to at least one of said at least one radio element and said sensing element.

29. The apparatus of claim 21 wherein said component configured to correlate said sensory report is further configured to correlate said sensory report based on using time stamp information associated with said one or more previous sensory reports from said sensing element.

30. The apparatus of claim 21 wherein said component configured to correlate said sensory report is further configured to correlate said sensory report based on using time stamp information associated with said one or more previous sensory reports from said another sensing element.