Title: The future of spectrum management - conciliating spectrum allocation, spectral efficiency and spectrum monetisation

Authors: Christophe Gaie; Markus Mueck

Addresses: Centre Interministériel de Services Informatiques RH, Paris, France ' Jaegerstrasse 4b, 82008 Unterhaching, Germany

Abstract: Current spectrum management paradigms are reaching their limits; communication systems such as 5G are key drivers for the world economy, but regulation authorities are facing challenges to identify suitable spectrum allocation for wide area deployment. On the other hand, in a given location and at a given time, the actual level of usage of allocated spectrum is often low. Thus, it seems inefficient to squeeze key economic drivers into small portions of available spectral resources while other parts of the spectrum may remain underused. As a result, a shift in spectrum management policy is inevitable. This paper describes various candidate directions, combining novel approaches such as spectrum sharing with dynamic rules exploiting variable spectral efficiency configurations of existing technologies. These proposals dramatically increase the overall exploitation of the limited resource of spectrum.

Keywords: spectrum; monetisation; public policy enforcement.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSYSE.2022.131031

International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering, 2022 Vol.7 No.1, pp.1 - 7

Received: 09 Dec 2021
Accepted: 15 Jul 2022
Published online: 19 May 2023 *