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Exploration of the Federal Communications Commission’s Experimental Radio Service (ERS): Understanding ten years of experimental spectrum licenses

Bustamante, Pedro and Weiss, Martin B.H. and Sicker, Douglas (2017) Exploration of the Federal Communications Commission’s Experimental Radio Service (ERS): Understanding ten years of experimental spectrum licenses. In: Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Sep 2017, Washington DC.

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Abstract

The Experimental Radio Service (ERS) of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has awarded experimental licenses for more than thirty years as a means to promote research and innovation in wireless technologies. In this work, we present an exploratory analysis of the details pertaining to the assignment of these licenses during the past ten years (2007-2016). For this purpose, we have built a single repository of technical and non-technical details about license applications by scraping publicly available information in the FCC’s website. This has permitted us systematically categorize among the existing types of experimental licenses and, subsequently, analyze their characteristics. We pay particular attention to the evolution of various parameters such as duration of license, frequency of assignment, processing times, operational parameters, among others. In addition, we explore potential trends hidden in ten years of experimental licenses. This allow us to better understand the time burden of obtaining an authorization or the factors that may influence the license granting process.We conclude this work by delving into the details behind the relationship between ERS authorizations and well known wireless technologies, in particular TV White Spaces and 5G.


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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Status: Published
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Bustamante, Pedropjb63@pitt.edupjb63
Weiss, Martin B.H.mbw@pitt.eduMBW0000-0001-6785-0913
Sicker, Douglassicker@cmu.edu
Date: 2017
Event Title: Telecommunications Policy Research Conference
Event Dates: Sep 2017
Event Type: Conference
Schools and Programs: School of Computing and Information > Telecommunications
Refereed: No
Date Deposited: 21 Feb 2019 14:45
Last Modified: 21 Feb 2019 14:45
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/35987

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