Workshop on Spectrum sharing strategies for wireless broadband services
in conjunction with PIMRC 2013, 8-11 September, 2013, London UK http://www.wireless.kth.se/wsss/ AIM and SCOPE There is an increasing demand for mobile data (the data tsunami). The demand can be met by a combination of different strategies; improved technology (spectrum efficiency), allocation of more spectrum and use of smaller cells. When it comes to spectrum allocation, on one hand efforts are made to allocate "more" bands and on the other hand new techniques to exploit and "re-use" bands allocated for other application. We believe that there is a "gap" in the discussions and understanding of spectrum usage for mobile broadband services. As we see it spectrum shortage also needs to be discussed in terms of trade-offs between capacity needs, spectrum and infrastructure cost. We also would like to highlight the clash between business models that are applied by different actors, there seems to be a "great divide" within the industry where different deployment models have different spectrum demands. There are two ways to confront the mobile data tsunami: 1.Traditional operators. Huge licensed spectrum demand to maintain inefficient wide-area (outdoor) deployment whilst majority of projected traffic is indoors. Here we see lots of sites and towers, high wall penetration losses, high energy consumption. The current operator business model ("owning the subscriber") is applied and protected. 2.Indoor/Hotspot operators Here we can see a moderate spectrum demand above 3 GHz due to short range systems, very efficient reuse and where "light licensing" regimes, shared spectrum and secondary spectrum reuse are possible. This will require new cooperative business/roaming models since both infrastructure and spectrum most likely need to be shared. Workshop Topics Topics of interests for the workshop are: *Addressing mobile broadband capacity demand *Addressing identified spectrum scarcity cases *Estimating the spectrum use/efficiency of different bands *Spectrum sharing strategies and new paradigms *Using small cells and femtocells, outdoor/indoor aspects *Regulatory approaches including preparation for WRC-15 *Trade-offs between capacity needs, spectrum and infrastructure cost *Techno-economic analysis of items above *Business model aspects of sharing, offloading, and roaming *Energy-aware spectrum sharing solutions Workshop Format It will be a half a day interactive workshop, the program will include presentations by invited speakers as well as those accepted from the open call for papers and also a panel discussion. Paper submissions and reviews Paper submissions and reviews will be handled by use of EDAS, more details will come. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three reviewers. The accepted papers will appear in IEEE Xplore In order to speed up the review process contributors are asked to notify the organizing committee about the paper submission. This is done by registration of the paper in EDAS including title, authors, key words and abstract May 31. The schedule for papers submissions and reviews is: Submission of paper abstract: 31 May 2013 Submission of full paper: 7 June 2013 Notification of acceptance: 21 June 2013 Camera ready papers: 15 July 2013 Contact: Associate Professor Jan Markendahl, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm jan...@kth.se Workshop organizing committee Reza Karimi, UK communications regulator (Ofcom), UK Jan Markendahl, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden Arturas Medeisis, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU), Lithuania Jens Zander, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden Program committee members Peter Anker, Ministry of Economics, The Netherlands Luca De Nardis, URS, Italy Vania Goncalves, iMind/SMIT, Belgium Oliver Holland, KCL, UK Jonas Kronander, Ericsson, Sweden Marja Matinmikko, VTT, Finland Leo Fulvio Minervini, UMacerata, Italy Bengt G Mölleryd, Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS), Sweden Mikael Prytz, Ericsson, Sweden Keith Nolan, CTVR, Ireland Mikko Uusitalo, Nokia, Finland Fernando Velez, UBI, Portugal _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
