Network-Based CBRS Radio Control for Adaptive Spectrum Use
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional mobile devices lack the ability to intelligently manage Citizen Band Radio Spectrum (CBRS) radio usage based on individual user circumstances, such as remaining plan data, network capacity, geographic location, and communication importance, leading to suboptimal wireless service.
Innovation Solution
A network-based system that utilizes user profiles and positioning data to selectively enable or disable CBRS radio for individual users, considering factors like remaining plan data, network capacity, geographic location, and communication importance, using a CBRS Controller Software to make informed decisions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If CBRS radio is enabled for all users, then spectrum utilization is maximized, but network control flexibility and user-specific optimization are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different CBRS radio control policies to different users based on their individual profiles, which include factors such as remaining plan data, network capacity, geographic location, and communication importance. This allows the network to optimize spectrum utilization locally for each user rather than applying a uniform enable/disable approach, thereby achieving both high spectrum utilization and user-specific optimization.
Solution Approach 2:
The CBRS radio control is made dynamic by continuously monitoring user conditions and network state, then adjusting CBRS availability in real-time. The system can enable or disable CBRS for specific users based on changing conditions such as network capacity fluctuations, user location changes, or plan data status, allowing the system to adapt between maximizing spectrum utilization and providing user-specific optimization as needed.
2Adaptability or versatility
If CBRS radio control is implemented at network level, then user-specific optimization is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces user profiles as an intermediary data structure that mediates between the network control system and individual users. These profiles contain pre-configured parameters such as remaining plan data, geographic location, and communication importance, which simplify the control logic by providing a standardized interface for making CBRS decisions without requiring complex real-time analysis for each user scenario.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring user profiles with relevant parameters before CBRS control decisions need to be made. By having user profiles ready with pre-established criteria (such as plan data status, location information, and communication priorities), the network can quickly determine CBRS availability without performing complex assessments at the moment of decision, thereby reducing real-time system complexity.
3Reliability
If CBRS is selectively enabled based on user profiles, then wireless service quality is improved, but decision-making complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes parameters in a controlled manner by using predefined profile parameters (remaining plan data, network capacity thresholds, geographic location zones, communication importance levels) as the basis for CBRS decisions. This parameter-based approach improves wireless service quality by ensuring decisions are based on objective, measurable criteria while limiting decision-making complexity by restricting the decision logic to straightforward parameter comparisons rather than complex multi-factor analysis.
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AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example: obtaining for each of a plurality of subscribers to a wireless service that uses a licensed radio spectrum a respective user profile; determining based upon a particular user profile of a particular subscriber that the particular subscriber has access to a Citizen Band Radio Spectrum (CBRS), resulting in a determination; responsive to the determination being that the particular subscriber has access to the CBRS, generating an instruction to a user device of the particular subscriber to utilize the CBRS; and transmitting the instruction to the user device of the particular subscriber. Other embodiments are disclosed.