The Telecommunications Industry Association said the White House...
The Telecommunications Industry Association said the White House should continue pursuing research and development related to spectrum sharing, and urged Congress to provide “significant additional funding” for that research. Additional funding would result in “transformational advances” in spectrum sharing research,…
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which in turn will have “economic benefits several times over,” TIA said Tuesday in a white paper. “Spectrum sharing technologies hold great promise, but a significant and sustained research and development effort is required to help move many of these technologies into the mainstream. By modernizing the foundations of the research ecosystem and focusing R&D efforts in priority areas, Congress and the Administration can work in partnership with industry to ensure that the future for spectrum remains a bright one.” TIA said more research is needed on several topics: The Authorized Shared Access and Licensed Shared Access unlicensed sharing regimes, the effectiveness of geolocation databases, cognitive radio, intelligent network selection, wideband sensing, distributed sensing, spectrum aggregation, interference mitigation, wireless ad hoc networks, network resiliency and security (http://bit.ly/1cniQEn).