As spectrum sharing becomes more mainstream (and necessary), intelligent monitoring will be required to support network management.
Canadian network intelligence and monitoring company thinkRF faces many challenges in deploying 5G networks in the 3.5 GHz spectrum band, said Jonathan Morris, director of product management at thinkRF.
“There are many challenges to the quality and deployment of 5G using the 3.5 GHz band. We see them in border areas between Canada and the United States, between Hungary and Austria. We see them everywhere. And domestically as well. And what we’re seeing is that as we roll out private 5G networks, new private operators will come in and use that spectrum and bring it to the public. You’re competing with commercial operators, you’re competing with other private operators,” Morris said in a recent speech.Interview RCR Wireless News At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Although CBRS in the United States uses shared environmental sensing and a hierarchical spectrum access prioritization scheme, there are “many issues that can arise within it, managing, understanding, and dynamic “We need to readjust to that,” he added.
Commenting on the steps the company takes to turn information about spectrum usage into results that help operators solve specific problems, Morris said thinkRF is using a more autonomous approach to build intelligence into RF management tools. I said that.
“The traditional approach to RF management has been to hire an RF engineer and use some diagnostic tools to figure out what’s going on. It’s a very static solution…—this is That’s what’s happening in places right now. Spectrum doesn’t work that way. It’s changing moment by moment, day by day. New people are deploying things today that didn’t exist yesterday. So yesterday’s measurements are no longer relevant. And we can’t send RF engineers everywhere in the network. So we’re taking a more autonomous approach and building intelligence into our RF management tools. “We’re going to remove the need for the operator of that spectrum of the network to be constantly involved, and we’re going to be able to see the changes as they happen, and we’re going to allow the users to react to the changes, in real time.” Morris said.
This is critical for future 6G deployments, beyond managing CBRS and other existing shared spectrum bands. Based on the latest World Radio Conference results and other national and international level he 6G coverage settings, the upper mid-band (7 GHz to 16 GHz) will be covered for wide area 6G coverage. More specifically, WRC-23 identified 7.1 GHz to 8.4 GHz as a global candidate band. The problem is that these frequencies are primarily occupied by incumbents, and the timelines are not necessarily conducive to widespread clearing. That means spectrum sharing is a likely outcome.
“So before you get to the upper midband,” Morris says. There’s a lot of work to do, understand what the satellite operators are doing, what the military is doing with their radar, where they’re operating, and some intelligent way to share underutilized resources. You need to be able to reassign it with . . Opening up the 6 GHz to more mobile and fixed wireless traffic and the 7.2 GHz band are being discussed. There are many opportunities to expand your spectrum. And we’re going to be involved in all of that,” he said.
