Can Unlicensed Bands Be Used by Unlicensed Usage?

Liu, Cui; Weiss, Martin B. H.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2241744

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“…for unlicensed spectrum effectively still exclude most wireless activities, CUI and WEISS (2013) claim that "offloading" strategies of wireless carriers are crowding out genuine unlicensed activities. Even if unlicensed spectrum gives users the freedom and incentive to economize on its use the allocation of spectrum bands to the unlicensed bandwidth remains administrative and therefore not subject to the same cost-benefit calculation that actual users would make (FAULHABER 2006).…”

Section: Unlicensed Spectrummentioning

confidence: 99%

The Endgame of Telecommunications Policy? A Survey

Vogelsang

2013

Review of Economics

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Telecommunications policy has come a long way from regulation of vertically integrated monopolies to the current state of competition. As competition becomes selfsustainable, will telecommunications policy in the form of industry-specific regulation go away or, if not, what form will it take? The economics literature suggests that the regulatory efficiency frontier is shifted by new technological and market developments, such as convergence of networks, fixed-mobile substitution (and integration) and next generation access networks. The frontier is also affected by the existing capital stock and other physical and institutional characteristics of a country. The insights from a review of the theoretical and empirical literature are applied to five policy areas. They are: (1) termination monopoly; (2) local bottleneck access; (3) net neutrality; (4) spectrum management; and (5) universal service. While in some of them, deregulation and a move to competition policy will soon be the efficient state of the art, regulation will remain efficient in others for some time. Deregulation will likely become efficient for one-way access and universal service, with the exception of some universal service policies in remote areas and for the poor. Termination will move to bill and keep with a duty to interconnect. In addition, some (more symmetric) regulation should persist for net neutrality in the form of transparency requirements, (quasi-) common carrier obligations and minimum quality standards. Also, spectrum management, while moving towards full-blown ownership rights, will continue to see regulators providing zoning and other services, particularly for unlicensed spectrum. All these assessments are premised on the success of making additional spectrum as the key resource available. They are also premised on the absence of a killer technology like P2P FTTH that potentially dominates all other technologies. What determines the endgame in telecommunications regulation? Although technical and market developments will dominantly shape the regulatory efficiency frontier, institutional and political economy factors have an additional and mostly slowing effect on policy changes. (JEL: L43; L86; L96; L98.

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Section: Unlicensed Spectrummentioning

confidence: 99%

The Endgame of Telecommunications Policy? A Survey

Vogelsang

2013

Review of Economics

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“…Conventionally, the Radio Frequency Spectrum (RFS) is statically regulated into licensed and unlicensed bands. While the use of the former is restricted to authorized operators, the unlicensed bands are available for use by the public subject to transmission constraints [1]. Under such regulation, the unlicensed bands may get heavily congested.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Selection of Spectrum Sensing Method to Enhance Qos in Cognitive Radio Networks

Giweli¹,

Shahrestani²,

Cheung³

2016

IJWMN

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The massively increasing number of wireless communication devices has led to considerable growths in radio traffic density, resulting in a predictable shortage of the available spectrum. To address this potential shortage, the Cognitive Radio (CR) technology offers promising solutions that aim to improve the spectrum utilization. The operation of CR relies on detecting the so-called spectrum holes, i.e., the frequency bands when they are unoccupied by their licensed operators. The unlicensed users are then allowed to communicate using these spectrum holes. Consequently, the performance of CR is highly dependent on the employed spectrum sensing methods. Several sensing methods are already available or literarily proposed. However, no individual method can accommodate all possible CR operation scenarios. Hence, it is fair to ascertain that the performance of a CR device can be improved if it is capable of supporting several sensing methods. Then it should be able to effectively select the most suitable method. In this paper, several spectrum sensing methods are compared and analyzed, aiming to identify their advantages and shortcomings in different CR operating conditions. Furthermore, it identifies the factors that need to be considered while selecting a proper sensing method from the catalog of available methods.

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“…While the use of the former is restricted to authorized operators, the unlicensed bands are available for use by the public, only subject to transmission constraints [1]. As such, the unlicensed bands may get heavily congested.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%