Dynamic shared-spectrum access engine for cellular operators
This technology creates a smart system for sharing wireless spectrum between established users — like military or government radio systems — and commercial cellular carriers who want access to those same frequencies. It works by combining real-time radio sensing at specific locations with a continuously updated database that tracks when and where the primary users are actually active. When a cellular operator requests spectrum, the system checks both the live sensor data and the historical database to find frequency bands that are genuinely idle, then allocates them dynamically. If interference with the original spectrum holders creeps above a safe threshold, the system automatically revokes the commercial user's access to protect the incumbent.
What you could build
A spectrum access system (SAS) platform sold to or licensed by cellular carriers and neutral-host operators enabling them to dynamically use underutilized government or incumbent spectrum bands — essentially a commercial-grade Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) engine that carriers, private-network operators, and neutral-host providers would deploy or license.
Who in Virginia should care
Northern Virginia and the Hampton Roads corridor host dense concentrations of federal spectrum users (DoD, DHS, Navy), making Virginia-based neutral-host network operators, defense contractors, and telecom infrastructure firms natural prospects for spectrum-sharing licensing.
Readiness: Prototype likely
Concept — described but not yet demonstrated. Lab validated — supported by experimental results in the patent. Prototype likely — the text describes a built, working embodiment.
Readiness is inferred from the patent text, not from a lab visit.
The record
- Inventors
- Ashwin AMANNA, Joseph MITOLA III, Thomas Charles CLANCY, Jeffrey H. REED, Robert MCGWIER, Avik SENGUPTA, Akshay KUMAR
- Granted
- February 18, 2020
- Status
- Granted patent
- Patent number
- 10568104
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