Spectrum Sharing in the Shadow of Uncertainty: Risk, Incentives and Investment

不确定性阴影下的频谱共享：风险、激励和投资

• 批准号: 1343381
• 负责人: Randall Berry
• 金额: $ 120万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1343381&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Spectrum; Sharing; Shadow; Uncertainty; Risk

Sharing of spectrum among government and/or commercial entities has the potential to unleash large amounts of spectrum to meet the dramatic increase in demand for mobile broadband services. Although there has been substantial work on developing technologies for such sharing, the adoption of extensive sharing by commercial service providers is by no means a forgone conclusion. This project is addressing three fundamental issues that need to be resolved in order for spectrum sharing to realize its potential.The first issue is concerned with developing models and techniques for mitigating the risks associated with secondary spectrum sharing. Such risks arise, for example, due to uncertainty in a primary user?s activity. The impact of both different technologies (e.g., more flexible devices) and different contractual arrangements (e.g., the possibility of offering "spectrum insurance") on such risks are being studied.The second issue is addressing how different spectrum agreements and associated risk may affect competition and strategic behavior among service providers. That affects their decisions to invest in both infrastructure and develop new spectrum sharing technologies.The final issue is understanding how to balance the benefits of using spectrum to provide a public good, such as defense, against its use to provide commercial broadband access. Identifying associated incentive issues and transaction costs with each type of service can lead to better sharing mechanisms that produce efficient outcomes.

政府和/或商业实体之间共享频谱有可能释放大量频谱，以满足移动宽带服务需求的急剧增长。尽管在开发此类共享技术方面已经开展了大量工作，但商业服务提供商采用广泛的共享绝不是必然的结果。该项目正在解决频谱共享发挥其潜力所需解决的三个基本问题。第一个问题涉及开发模型和技术以减轻与二次频谱共享相关的风险。例如，由于主要用户活动的不确定性，会出现此类风险。正在研究不同技术（例如，更灵活的设备）和不同合同安排（例如，提供“频谱保险”的可能性）对此类风险的影响。第二个问题是解决不同的频谱协议和相关风险如何影响服务提供商之间的竞争和战略行为。这会影响他们投资基础设施和开发新频谱共享技术的决定。最后一个问题是了解如何平衡使用频谱提供公共利益（例如国防）与使用频谱提供商业宽带接入的好处。确定每种服务类型的相关激励问题和交易成本可以带来更好的共享机制，从而产生有效的结果。

项目成果

Monetizing Mobile Data via Data Rewards

• DOI: 10.1109/jsac.2020.2971867
• 发表时间: 2019-11
• 期刊: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
• 影响因子: 16.4
• 作者: Haoran Yu;Ermin Wei;R. Berry

The Economics of Bundling Content with Unlicensed Wireless Service

将内容与未经许可的无线服务捆绑在一起的经济效益

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-16989-3_7
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
• 作者: Zhu, Y;Berry, R.
• 通讯作者: Berry, R.

A Business Model Analysis of Mobile Data Rewards

移动数据奖励商业模式分析

• DOI: 10.1109/infocom.2019.8737504
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: IEEE INFOCOM
• 作者: Yu, Haoran;Wei, Ermin;Berry, Randall A.
• 通讯作者: Berry, Randall A.

The Cooperation and Competition Between an Added Value MVNO and an MNO Allowing Secondary Access

• DOI: 10.23919/wiopt47501.2019.9144115
• 发表时间: 2019-06
• 期刊: 2019 International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOPT)
• 作者: Yining Zhu;Haoran Yu;R. Berry