Essentials of Modern Spectrum Management

This 2007 book was the first to describe and evaluate modern spectrum management tools.

Martin Cave (Author), Chris Doyle (Author), William Webb (Author)

9780521876698, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 August 2007

278 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.58 kg

Are you fully up-to-speed on today's modern spectrum management tools? As regulators move away from traditional spectrum management methods, introduce spectrum trading and consider opening up more spectrum to commons, do you understand the implications of these developments for your own networks? This 2007 book was the first to describe and evaluate modern spectrum management tools. Expert authors offer insights into the technical, economic and management issues involved. Auctions, administrative pricing, trading, property rights and spectrum commons are all explained. A series of real-world case studies from around the world is used to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches adopted by different regulators, and valuable lessons are drawn from these. This concise and authoritative resource is a must-have for telecom regulators, network planners, designers and technical managers at mobile and fixed operators and broadcasters, and academics involved in the technology and economics of radio spectrum.

Acknowledgements
Part I. Emerging Problems with the Current Spectrum Management Approach: 1. Current spectrum management methods and their shortcomings
2. How changing technology is impacting spectrum management
3. Alternative ways of dividing spectrum
Part II. Markets: 4. Market solutions
5. Auctions
6. Spectrum trading - secondary markets
7. Technical issues with property rights
8. Economic issues with property rights
9. Competition issues relating to spectrum
10. Band management
Part III. Regulation: 11. Incentive based spectrum prices - theory
12. Incentive based spectrum pricing - practicalities
13. How the commons works
14. Commons or non-commons
15. Is the public sector spectrum management different?
16. Are developing countries different?
Part IV. Conclusions: 17. Conclusions
Further reading
Index
List of abbreviations
Author biographies.

Subject Areas: Computer networking & communications [UT], Communications engineering / telecommunications [TJK], Electronics engineering [TJF], Electronics & communications engineering [TJ], Electrical engineering [THR]