Experimental Field Test Results on Feasibility of Declarative Spectrum Management

Abstract

We describe the design and report on experience fielding an end-to-end framework for declarative spectrum management of frequency agile wireless communication devices. As part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency NeXt Generation communication program, we developed a distributed, policy-driven system that restricts spectrum access based on spectral, temporal and geospatial context. We report on our field framework experimentation, illustrating the capability offered to wireless systems, their command & control management, and individual radios for enforcing spectrum access policies while enabling the radios to fully utilize available spectrum in comparison to traditional, static-assignment spectrum access methods.

Towards Collaborative and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing via Interpretation of Spectrum Access Policies

“…The last work that we selected comes from the Spectrum Sharing Company (SSC), one of the performers on the DARPA XG program. SSC was first developed to provide a proof of feasibility to the policy-based DSA [31]. Their first paper did not provide any details about the reasoner that was used in the implementation ("the Policy Reasoner itself is implemented using numerous approaches").…”