Spectrum Environment Awareness (SEA) System

Innovative Spectrum Monitoring Solution

August 2, 2016

Building a prosperous and innovative Canada

Source: Communications Research Centre Canada

Organisational chart

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Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

(formerly Industry Canada)

… …Spectrum, Information Technology

and Telecommunications

Communications Research Centre

Spectrum Management

Operations

Engineering, Planning and

Standards Branch

Spectrum Licensing

Policy Branch…

Background - Monitoring

• Pre-1990: Manual operation using receivers

and handheld direction finding equipment

• >1990: radio spectrum getting more

congested, interference cases more frequent

and complex

• Creation of Integrated Spectrum Observation

Centres (ISOC)

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Current Monitoring Infrastructure

• Infrastructure

• 80 Fixed monitoring sites (ISOC)

• 50 mobile monitoring vehicles

• 8 monitoring trailers

• 2 specialty vehicles

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Why Monitor ?

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Compliance

and

Enforcement

Spectrum Management

Operations

Policy

Licensing

Our Vision as a Canadian Regulator

Comprehensive Spectrum

Knowledge

Dynamic Spectrum

Assignment

Intelligent Sustainable Spectrum

Management

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Spectrum Environment Awareness (SEA)

• Using spectrum knowledge to enable more

effective management and to maximize the use of

spectrum

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Comprehensive Spectrum Knowledge SEA

SEA System and Functional Concept

Spectrum Environment Awareness

SystemData

Aggregation

Analytics

Intelligent

Tasking

Visualization

Sensors

• Reporting right information at

right time

• Scalable & cost effective big

data analysis architecture

• Heterogeneous & expandable

smart sensing system

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SEA Prototype Overview

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IBM IoTFoundation

IBM Bluemix

Sensor Resource Manager

Sensing Task Manager

Microsoft Azure

BLOB Storage

Event Hub

HDInsightHadoop

R&T DB

Spectrum Data &

Report DB

Stream Analytics

Batch Analysis & Analytics

Real-timeAnalytics

PowerBI

Visualization

Sensors

Control

Measurement Data

SEA Cloud

Infrastructure

To 3rd Party

Sensing

Data Cloud

Machine Learning

Studio

SEA Cloud Infrastructure

Sensors in The Prototype

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• Spectrum coverage

o From 70 MHz to 6GHz, LMR, LTE, WiFi

• In-house, COTS, 3rd party collaboration

o CRC USRP, Rohde & Schwarz, Cognitive System Ltd.

• The new and the legacy, the stationary and the mobile sensors

o Stationary sensors in buildings, houses and mobile sensors in taxis

o Department’s legacy LMR sensing stations

Dedicated LTE Sensor R & S

Crowdsourcing AppLow Cost Spectrum Scanner WiFi Sniffer

Amera Sensor

CloudSpectrum Explorer

Sensing & Tasking

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Generating Spectrum Metrics

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• Use case defined spectrum metrics

• Signal power, noise floor, band/time occupancy, off-set,

loading/congestion, user experience, technology info. etc

Spectrum Data Analytics

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• Machine Learning &

Analytics

• Clustering

• Time series analysis

• Anomaly detection

Anomaly Detection of Noise Power

Intelligence for Spectrum Management

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Data Science for Spectrum Management

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• Near realtime spectrum intelligence correlated and visualized

• Big data science based spectrum management

Big Data Analytic Centre at CRC

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The SEA Experience

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• New way for acquiring and using the spectrum knowledge

• Game changer to spectrum regulator

• Spectrum management for 5G