Patent ID: 11914063
Assignee: DISH WIRELESS L.L.C.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system to automatically detect border conflicts in physical radiofrequency (RF) network infrastructure deployments, the system comprising:
a radiation contour mapper to:
obtain, for each sector antenna of a plurality of sector antennas geographically distributed across a plurality of mapped licensed geographic regions (mLGRs) of a physical RF network infrastructure, a respective sector site defining a location in a respective home mLGR of the mLGRs, and respective antenna characteristics defining at least radiation characteristics of the sector antenna, each sector antenna permitted to radiate in a respective spectrum block of a plurality of spectrum blocks in the respective home mLGR pursuant to a granted spectrum license;
compute radiation contours for at least a portion of the sector antennas to indicate estimated local power levels at a plurality of measurement points based on the respective antenna characteristics and propagation model data defining geographic morphologies for the plurality of mLGRs; and

a border conflict detector in communication with the radiation contour mapper to:
analyze the radiation contours to detect border conflict conditions for any of the measurement points at which the estimated local power levels exceed a threshold radiation level permitted to propagate from the plurality of sector antennas into unlicensed mLGRs of the plurality of mLGRs pursuant to border constraint data associated with the granted spectrum license; and
output, responsive to detecting the border conflict conditions, a culprit set of the sector antennas as those of the plurality of sector antennas responsible for the border conflict conditions.