NeTS:medium: Design of Dynamic Spectrum Markets for Wireless Networks

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。人们普遍认为，当前的无线频谱政策阻碍了大容量无线网络的持续发展。该项目正在研究解除目前对频谱分配和所有权的限制，并允许广泛的频谱市场在不同地点、不同时间和不同应用中分配频谱的后果。在这种情况下可能出现的各种市场结构正在使用多学科技术进行研究，包括微观经济学、优化理论和无线网络的思想。正在探讨的一个关键问题是如何定义将在这样一个市场中交易的频谱资产，同时考虑到无线频谱不同用户之间的干扰和由此产生的市场机制的性能。根据不同资产定义和市场机制的效率和复杂性，这导致了权衡的特征。这些结果为基于市场的无线频谱分配提供了新的见解。通过出版物传播的研究结果有助于促进向新的市场结构的过渡，从而降低进入无线服务市场的壁垒，从而促进竞争和引进新服务。通过该项目发展的跨学科思想注入研究生课程也拓宽了研究生的培养。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). It is widely recognized that current wireless spectrum policy has been an impediment to the continued growth of high-capacity wireless networks. This project is investigating the consequences of lifting current restrictions on spectrum allocation and ownership, and allowing for extensive spectrum markets for allocating spectrum across locations, times and diverse applications. Various market structures that may emerge in such a setting are being studied using multi-disciplinary techniques including ideas from micro-economics, optimization theory and wireless networking. A key issue being explored is how to define the spectrum assets that will be traded in such a market taking into account both the interference among different users of wireless spectrum and the performance of the resulting market mechanisms. This results in a characterization of the trade-offs, in terms of efficiency and complexity of different asset definitions and market mechanisms. These results provide new insights into market-based allocation for wireless spectrum. Results disseminated via publications could help facilitate a transition to new market structures that may lower the barriers to entry into the wireless services market thereby facilitating competition and the introduction of new services. The infusion of the cross-disciplinary ideas developed through this project into graduate classes also broadens the training of graduate students.