Wireless Spectrum Coordination Between Management Devices

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Solution Overview

Problem

In scenarios where a primary and secondary wireless communication system coexist, existing technologies face challenges in efficiently managing spectrum resources to prevent interference with the primary system while maximizing utilization efficiency, due to limited available spectrum and differing priority levels between systems.

Innovation Solution

An electronic apparatus and method that determine interference relationships among secondary systems within a specific region, generating a spectrum coordination request to coordinate spectrum resource utilization between different spectrum management devices, ensuring orthogonal resource allocation and improving overall utilization efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If the secondary system utilizes spectrum resources dynamically, then spectrum utilization efficiency is improved, but interference to the primary system increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespectrum utilization efficiencyVSAvoidinterference to primary system
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the secondary system monitors the primary system's signal strength and adjusts its transmission power accordingly. When the primary system's signal is detected above a threshold, the secondary system reduces or stops transmission to avoid interference. This feedback loop enables dynamic adaptation to primary system activity, allowing the secondary system to utilize spectrum resources efficiently while preventing harmful interference to the licensed primary system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs dynamic spectrum access where the secondary system's transmission parameters (power, timing, frequency) are continuously adjusted based on real-time detection of primary system signals. This dynamic behavior allows the secondary system to exploit available spectrum opportunities when the primary system is not transmitting, while automatically retreating when primary system activity is detected, thus resolving the contradiction between utilization efficiency and interference prevention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Productivity

If multiple secondary systems share the same spectrum resources, then spectrum utilization efficiency is improved, but aggregated interference to the primary system increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespectrum utilization efficiencyVSAvoidaggregated interference from secondary systems
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by allowing different secondary systems to transmit with different power levels based on their specific locations and interference conditions. Each secondary system independently adjusts its transmission parameters according to local interference measurements, enabling multiple systems to coexist in the same spectrum resources while controlling their individual contributions to aggregated interference. This localized adaptation prevents any single secondary system from causing excessive interference to the primary system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS12010523B2Electronic device and method for wireless communication, and computer readable storage medium
Publication Date: 2024.06.11 SONY GROUP CORP
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AI summary

The present invention provides an electronic device and method for wireless communication, and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit configured to: on the basis of interference relationship information among subsystems in a specific area, determine a second subsystem in a second coexistence group having an interference relationship with a first subsystem in a first coexistence group, wherein the first coexistence group comprises subsystems managed by a first spectrum management apparatus, and the second coexistence group comprises subsystems managed by a second spectrum management apparatus; and generate a spectrum coordination request to provide same to the second spectrum management apparatus, the spectrum coordination request indicating that the first spectrum management apparatus expects to use spectrum resources in coordination with the second spectrum management apparatus.