A model spectrum city, as envisioned by the...
A model spectrum city, as envisioned by the Obama administration, could prove “quite useful as a tool to facilitate experimentation and validation of proposed concepts that could lead to improved spectrum sharing methods and techniques,” Nokia Solutions and Networks US…
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said in comments (http://bit.ly/1vUKaWd) filed at the FCC, posted Friday in docket 14-99. In July, NTIA and the FCC sought comment on a public-private partnership to create a spectrum test city (CD July 14 p15), a recommendation of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in its July 2012 spectrum sharing report. The city could be used to advance the understanding of the propagation among the different systems trying to share the same spectrum, Nokia said. The Irregular Terrain Model (ITM) is the one generally used by government agencies, but “there is limited empirical data to validate the parameterization of the ITM models,” Nokia said. “It would be very beneficial to those who design and manufacture radio equipment to have reasonably validated propagation models in order to innovate and seek good solutions to the challenges of sharing spectrum with disparate systems ideally to the point of co-existing with those systems rather than trying to simply avoid them.” Nokia suggested that funding shouldn’t be just from private industry and said the administration should seek “supportive funding from entities such as the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Commerce or other means."