Cognitive and Cooperative Wireless Networks

Date
2012
Editor(s)
Advisor
Supervisor
Co-Advisor
Co-Supervisor
Instructor
Source Title
The Newcom++ Vision Book: Perspectives of Research on Wireless Communications in Europe
Print ISSN
Electronic ISSN
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Italia s.r.l.
Volume
9788847019836
Issue
Pages
67 - 83
Language
English
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Series
Abstract

The traditional approach of dealing with spectrum management in wireless communications has been the definition of a licensed user granted with exclusive exploitation rights for a specific frequency. While it is relatively easy in this case to ensure that excessive interference does not occur, this approach is unlikely to achieve the objective to maximize the value of spectrum, and in fact recent spectrum measurements carried out worldwide have revealed a significant spectrum underutilization, in spite of the fact that spectrum scarcity is claimed when trying to find bands where new systems can be allocated. Just to mention some examples of measurements, different studies can be found in [1-6], revealing that overall occupation in some studies for frequencies up to 7GHz could be in the order of only 18%.

Course
Other identifiers
Book Title
Citation
Published Version (Please cite this version)