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In this paper, we evaluate the opportunities that Wireless Network Virtualization (WNV) can bring for spectrum sharing by focusing on the regulatory framework that has been deployed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the 3.5 GHz band. We pair this innovative regulatory approach with another novel arrangement, Wireless Network Virtualization, and thus assess the resulting opportunities from the perspectives of regulation, technology and economics. To this end, we have established a comprehensive foundation for further exploration and development of virtualized networks that would provide significant opportunities for enabling and enhancing current sharing arrangements.
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PALs are defined as an authorization to use a 10 MHz channel in a single census tract for three years. These licenses will be assigned in up to 70 MHz of the 3550–3650 MHz portion of the band [2].
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According to [23], “[c]ommon-pool resources are systems that generate finite quantities of resource units so that one person’s use does subtract from the quantity of resource units available to others. Most common-pool resources are sufficiently large that multiple actors can simultaneously use the resource system and efforts to exclude potential beneficiaries are costly”.
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This work has been supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant 1443796.
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Gomez, M.M., Weiss, M.B.H. (2016). Wireless Network Virtualization: Opportunities for Spectrum Sharing in the 3.5 GHz Band. In: Noguet, D., Moessner, K., Palicot, J. (eds) Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks. CrownCom 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 172. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40352-6_19
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