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Is the regulatory/public policy landscape affecting the deployment of SDR, CR, and DSA technology? Blog: SDR Forum Market Adoption Blog | By: Lee Pucker | Released: Feb 12, 2010 04:50 PM If the United States is any guide, the regulatory environment appears to be evolving favorably to support DSA-enabled radio devices and networks through the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) flexible service rules, secondary market policies, and access to the so-called TV “white spaces.” More recently, NTIA Director Larry Strickling told a Department of Defense Spectrum Symposium that NTIA has “high hopes for dynamic spectrum access and related innovations to make spectrum use as efficient as possible and to solve the challenges presented when different users and different devices are trying to operate in the same frequency band.” Finally, as part of its Innovation Agenda, the Obama Administration has committed “to supporting research that will foster the next wave of innovation in information and communications technologies such as ‘cognitive radio’ that allows for the efficient sharing of spectrum.”
Recently, at a Forum event, expert panelists and participants explored a number of questions related to developing a global regulatory framework that promotes the adoption of these new and emerging wireless technologies. In this blog post, we seek your input on these questions. Please submit comments and point us to compelling references in reply to this post at the link below or, if you would rather not be public about them, send your thoughts to lee.pucker@wirelessinnovation.org and they will be forwarded on as appropriate.
Released: Feb 12, 2010 04:50 PM | Updated: Mar 01, 2010 12:27 PM Keywords: Communications | Technology    Interesting Assessment by Congressional Research ServiceBy: Peter Tenhula | Posted: Mar 02, 2010 06:56 AM The primary difficulty for regulators in overseeing the sharing of spectrum is to minimize interference among devices operating on the same or nearby frequencies. It was primarily to prevent interference to wireless messages that spectrum licensing was first instituted. Today, a number of administrative and technological methods are available to minimize interference of wireless transmissions. In theory, all spectrum bands can be shared if interference can be managed. Among the technologies that facilitate spectrum sharing are cognitive radio and Dynamic Spectrum Access, also referred to as XG networks.20 These enabling technologies allow communications to switch instantly among network frequencies that are not in use and therefore available to any radio device equipped with cognitive technology. [20 The neXt Generation program, or XG, is a technology development project sponsored by the Strategic Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The main goals of the program include developing both the enabling technologies and system concepts that dynamically redistribute allocated spectrum.] Linda K. Moore, “Spectrum Policy in the Age of Broadband: Issues for Congress,” Congressional Research Service Report R40674 at p. 5 (July 13, 2009), available at http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40674_20090713.pdf (emphasis added). |
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