SARASOTA, Fla. -- xG® Technology, Inc. ("xG" or the "Company") (AIM: XGTU.L) (AIM: XGT.L), the developer of a portfolio of wireless communications technologies, including cognitive radio networks, today announced that it has been granted two new patents on Self-Organizing Networks (SON). The inventions contained in these patents dramatically simplify and significantly reduce the cost related to the deployment and operation of wireless networks used in a variety of applications, including commercial cellular and rural broadband systems. They also cover the use of real-time cognitive sensing technology to enhance the performance of wireless networks that must rely on spectrum databases, such as those currently used with TV white spaces. Further, these inventions enable network infrastructure (base stations) to be fully mobile, which is ideal for those situations encountered by public safety, homeland security, and military entities during disaster response and recovery operations like those faced in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

These patents continue xG's record of developing intelligent technology that increases the efficiency and performance of wireless networks. The explosion in mobile broadband data requires networks that can deliver network capacity, coverage and quality -- while minimizing costs. Self-Organizing Networks can enhance the total performance of networks by lowering installation and management costs, while eliminating the need for manual configuration of frequency planning via built-in automatic configuration and optimization algorithms.

"As wireless networks proliferate, get more complex and face diminishing spectrum resources, cognitive radio technology will play a larger role in the industry's next-generation mobile broadband infrastructure," said Fanny Mlinarsky, President and Founder of octoScope. "The challenge of managing channels and dynamically shifting capacity among cell sites in real-time will require wireless systems to 'self-engineer' and 'self-optimize' as described in these patents. Also, because the FCC and other regulatory bodies around the world have indicated that spectrum databases are the preferred mechanism for controlling shared frequency allocations, xG has secured significant and potentially highly valuable IP in these granted patents."

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