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Analysis of Blockchain Use Cases in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service Spectrum Sharing Concept

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The Blockchain (BC) technology has received religious attention in the financial and internet domains, and recently interest has spread to adjacent sectors like communications. This paper seeks to identify the impact of the BC technology in novel spectrum sharing concepts using the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) concept as an example. The results indicate that the BC core characteristics can be utilized in several use cases addressing current CBRS implementation considerations. The CBRS concept could particularly benefit of BCs in building trust, consensus and lowering the transaction cost. In BC deployments, confidentiality should be taken into consideration through hybrid and private BC options. Furthermore, the cognitive radio spectrum sharing – BC combination paves the way for new business models and distributed services.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been done in the microOperator (µO) and the Micro-operator concept for boosting local service delivery in 5G (uO5G) research projects within the 5G programs of Tekes - the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation. The author would like to acknowledge the project consortium members: Aalto University, University of Oulu, Elisa, Eltel Networks, Fairspectrum, University Properties of Finland, Verkotan, Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications, Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority and Tekes.

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    Seppo Yrjölä

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    Paulo Marques

  2. Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal

    Ayman Radwan

  3. Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal

    Shahid Mumtaz

  4. CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France

    Dominique Noguet

  5. Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal

    Jonathan Rodriguez

  6. NOKIA, Munich, Germany

    Michael Gundlach

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Yrjölä, S. (2018). Analysis of Blockchain Use Cases in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service Spectrum Sharing Concept. In: Marques, P., Radwan, A., Mumtaz, S., Noguet, D., Rodriguez, J., Gundlach, M. (eds) Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks. CrownCom 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 228. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76207-4_11

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