EARS: Enabling local spectrum markets for enhanced access and flexible service

EARS：为本地频谱市场提供增强的接入和灵活的服务

• 批准号: 1247958
• 负责人: Koushik Kar
• 金额: $ 49.93万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1247958&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EARS; Enabling; local; spectrum; markets

Licensed spectrum services today are offered by a few large providers with a national presence, and market competition is realized only at the national scale. Typical provider-customer contracts are relatively long term with few standard contract choices, which does not lead to the best value realization for the customer. Furthermore, mobile users are often restricted to using long range communication to the provider's base stations, even when they are in the range of access points of other users that are currently under-loaded but closed for public use.This project attempts to address those limitations. Firstly, it studies the viability of regional wholesale spectrum markets, and the role that should be played by regional spectrum providers with secondary licenses and localized operation. Secondly, it investigates the design and pricing of flexible provider-customer spectrum service contracts that would enable both contracting parties to operate at their desired risk-return tradeoff points. Thirdly, this project studies access, security and incentive mechanism design questions that can enable users to serve as micro-providers, or share their spectrum contracts with others in their "community". These explorations are conducted using economic/business theories of investment analysis, financial engineering, risk management, control and optimization, and network game theory, as well as small-scale user surveys and simulation experiments.The broader goal of the project is to facilitate a more layered market structure that will increase the number of regional players in the spectrum service contracting business, and also involve the users in providing spectrum services to others. More local competition would allow more competitive prices for spectrum usage, better local expansion and coverage, and therefore better access for users. Sharing of unused spectrum by users with each other would enable better spectrum access and rates, and revenue to users who share their unused spectrum. Spectrum service innovations that this project explores, along with presence of regional providers, would allow users to have individualized spectrum contracts with more flexible terms and conditions than what exist today.

当今有执照的光谱服务由一些拥有全国业务的大型提供商提供，市场竞争仅在国家规模上实现。典型的提供商定位合同是相对较长的长期，几乎没有标准合同选择，这不会导致对客户的最佳价值实现。此外，即使移动用户处于目前载有但供公众使用封闭的其他用户的访问点范围内，移动用户即使在提供商的基站使用长距离通信。该项目试图解决这些限制。首先，它研究了区域批发市场的生存能力，以及具有辅助许可证和本地化运营的区域频谱提供商应扮演的角色。其次，它调查了灵活的提供商 - 客户频谱服务合同的设计和定价，这将使双方都能以所需的风险回收权衡点运营。第三，该项目研究访问，安全性和激励机制设计问题，可以使用户充当微型支持者，或与“社区”中的其他人分享他们的频谱合同。 These explorations are conducted using economic/business theories of investment analysis, financial engineering, risk management, control and optimization, and network game theory, as well as small-scale user surveys and simulation experiments.The broader goal of the project is to facilitate a more layered market structure that will increase the number of regional players in the spectrum service contracting business, and also involve the users in providing spectrum services to others.更多的本地竞争将允许频谱使用情况，更好的本地扩展和覆盖范围，从而为用户提供更好的访问。用户共享未使用的频谱将使分享其未使用频谱的用户获得更好的频谱访问和利率，并为您提供收入。该项目探索的Spectrum服务创新以及区域提供商的存在，将使用户拥有比当今存在更灵活的条款和条件的个性化频谱合同。