The present application is a national stage application filed under 35 U.S.C. 371 based on PCT International Application No. PCT/US2018/014679, filed Jan. 22, 2018, which claims the benefit of priority of and to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/474,606, filed Mar. 30, 2017, each of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.

The present disclosure describes a method and an apparatus for allocating wireless channels of a frequency spectrum. For example, the method may be for enabling sharing of channels of a frequency spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band. Although, the present disclosure is described below for channels of a frequency spectrum in a 3.5 GHz (Gigahertz) band, the allocation of channels may be for any shared frequency band.

BACKGROUND

As more and more users have become reliant on wireless user endpoint devices for accessing a variety of communications services, spectrum resources have become invaluable to the service providers. However, spectrum resources are limited and sharing spectrum resources may be beneficial.

