Spectrum sharing or‘If we build it, will they come?’

Martin BH WeissAssociate DeanSchool of Information SciencesUniversity of PittsburghPittsburgh PA USAmbw@pitt.edu

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What ‘they’ don’t want

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Getting it right

http://www.paulmidler.com/chinese-products-still-suck/

Will they come?

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Types of DSA

Cooperative secondary sharing

A Tonmukayakul and M Weiss “A study of secondary spectrum use using agent-based computational economics” Netnomics, 2008 (9:125-151)

Liquidity in license trading

John Mayo and Scott Wallsten ‘Enabling efficient wireless communications: The role of secondary spectrum markets’ Information Economics and Policy, 22 (2010) 61–72.

Price trends for licenses

http://www.spectrumbridge.com/products-services/specex/index.aspx

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Questions?

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