Emerging issues in white space regulation

Freyens, Benoit; Loney, Mark

doi:10.1016/j.telpol.2012.06.010

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“…Since 2012 the FCC has sought to further recover and reallocate broadcasting spectrum in the lower 600 MHz band through a “carrot‐and‐sticks” incentive auction and repacking program, which we discuss further in Section . Pursuit of digital dividends 2.0 and 3.0 is also currently under way in Australia and New Zealand (Freyens & Loney, ).…”

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Royalties, entry, and spectrum allocation to the broadcasting industry

Caputo

Freyens

2017

J Public Economic Theory

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We characterize the socially optimal trajectory of spectrum royalty and firm entry in a deregulated over‐the‐air broadcasting industry. A social planner maximizes consumers' lifetime utility by setting royalties for the use of publicly owned spectrum. As the number of broadcasters adjusts to profits over time, the quality of service improves through greater variety but also deteriorates through intensified interferences. Contrary to observed consolidation and return to concentration in past deregulatory reforms, we find that optimal royalty control that accounts for these quality effects steers the socially optimal trajectory of royalties and firms to a more competitive steady state.

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Royalties, entry, and spectrum allocation to the broadcasting industry

Caputo

Freyens

2017

J Public Economic Theory

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“…The potential deployment of guard bands and full-duplex by CR user in IWSNs for IWC should be investigated,. 152 To facilitate this research, the use of multiple antennas for full-duplex IWC where CR users can transmit data and sense the spectrum simultaneously should be the takeoff point for future research. Other challenges that might arise from this development, specifically in IWSNs and regarding IWC, includes increased cost, and self-interference between different antennas.…”

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A review of industrial wireless communications, challenges, and solutions: A cognitive radio approach

Oyewobi

Djouani

Kurien

2020

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Integral and crucial to performance of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), and specifically industrial wireless sensor network (IWSN) is stable, robust, reliable, and ubiquitous communications system. Though, wired communications system is suitable for industrial communications and is resilient to shadowing and multipath fading effects of industrial‐WSN environments, yet its wireless counterpart is a much preferred industrial communications technology due to reduced cost and high flexibility which it offers in comparison to wired communications. However, overcrowding of the industrial, scientific, and medical band, where IWSN is deployed together with other heterogeneous technologies, as well as resultant scarcity of usable frequency spectrum has restrained exclusive application of wireless technology for industrial communications. Nonetheless, cognitive radio (CR) has ability to increase spectrum utilization efficiency and channel capacity for industrial wireless communications (IWC) through opportunistic/dynamic spectrum access (DSA) technique. In this review article, we examine how DSA can benefit IWC through exploitation of new perspectives of white space definitions in the licensed bands as well as unlicensed bands. While discussing the potential of DSA for IWC, we have considered the unique characteristics of IWC as well as technical challenges and issues imposed by industrial‐WSN. Accordingly, we have suggested and proffered appropriate CR‐based solutions in mitigating some of the challenges where necessary.

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“…In an environment where there are competing technological uses for an unlicensed spectrum, some types of devices (e.g. wireless microphones) have been actively managed to use different spectrums (Freyens and Loney, 2013). There are also challenges that spectrum regulators must meet in allowing unlicensed devices to use a spectrum which is already licensed to others in either narrowband "holes" or on a wideband basis (Freyens et al, 2014).…”

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Spectrum management issues for heterogeneous networks in commons spectrum

Nicholls

2016

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse some of the spectrum management policy implications of an evolving set of wireless technologies. Specially, deployment of heterogeneous networks (HetNets) as part of the rollout of long-term evolution networks and their expected use as the heart of next-generation services raises the question as to whether such networks should lead to any spectrum management policy changes. Design/methodology/approach The paper describes the use and variety of HetNets when using licensed and unlicensed or commons spectrum. Findings The paper demonstrates that there is little need to change current spectrum licensing regimes to deal with these networks in a licensed spectrum. However, it also shows that the deployment of HetNets other than WiFi in an unlicensed spectrum creates an information asymmetry, which means that spectrum regulators will find assessment of spectrum demand more difficult. The paper also highlights the problem facing spectrum regulators when there is a potential for interference to unlicensed services which are widely deployed but have no right to protection from interference. Practical implications Spectrum regulators will need to understand the extent to which an unlicensed spectrum is being used by mobile network operators to deliver wireless broadband services. This understanding is needed to be able to address potential interference with other services using an unlicensed spectrum and to be able to forecast spectrum demand. Originality/value The development of technologies that are designed to be used by existing mobile network operators for the delivery of wireless broadband services using an unlicensed spectrum creates novel regulatory challenges. This paper reviews some of these.

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Emerging issues in white space regulation

Cited by 5 publications

References 7 publications

Royalties, entry, and spectrum allocation to the broadcasting industry

Royalties, entry, and spectrum allocation to the broadcasting industry

A review of industrial wireless communications, challenges, and solutions: A cognitive radio approach

Spectrum management issues for heterogeneous networks in commons spectrum

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