A Strategy for Active Remote Sensing Amid Increased Demand for Radio Spectrum (2015) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
7 Spectrum Access: Allocation Policies and the Assignment Process
7 Spectrum Access: Allocation Policies and the Assignment Process
Pages 147-160
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 147... ...
The onset of smart phones, tablets, and machine-to-machine communications has created great demand for wireless broadband and digital data to support numerous mobile applications. This increased demand for mobile broadband creates a derived demand for additional RF spectrum for mobile broadband.
|
From page 148... ...
International Radio Spectrum Policies The United States is not alone in its desire to have more RF spectrum available for commercial uses. Table 7.1 is a snapshot across the world indicating the amount of spectrum in the pipeline for mobile broadband, and Figure 7.1 depicts the large and growing global use of mobile phones.
|
From page 149... ...
SOURCE: Federal Communications Commission, "The Mobile Broadband Spectrum Challenge: Interna tional Comparisons," FCC White Paper, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Office of Engineering and Technology, Washington, D.C., February 26, 2013. Outside the United States, it is common to allocate spectrum to a specific cellular technology (2G, 3G, or 4G)
|
From page 150... ...
SPECTRUM ALLOCATION AND ASSIGNMENT The entire radio spectrum is divided into blocks or bands of frequencies that are used for specific types of services. The spectrum management process is broken up into two general areas: spectrum allocation and spectrum assignment.
|
From page 151... ...
During the 1920s there was an explosion of requests for licenses and burgeoning interference concerns, which were addressed by then Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover. The Radio Act of 1927 established a new temporary independent agency, the Federal Radio Commission, with the stated purpose to resolve these numerous interference issues.6 The commission was empowered to impose rules and regulations for both the licensing and operations of the radio spectrum.
|
From page 152... ...
One division of the ITU, the ITU-R (Radio Communication Sector) , holds 7 The seven bureaus are Consumer and Government Affairs, Enforcement, International, Media, Public Safety and Homeland Security, Wireless Telecommunications, and Wireline Communications (see Federal Communications Commission, "Bureaus and Offices," http://www.fcc.gov/bureaus offices, accessed June 4, 2015)
|
From page 153... ...
the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) , where it proposes intergov ernmental treaties on spectrum allocations.
|
From page 154... ...
software was developed to fulfill a need to automate many processes and to standardize spectrum management processes throughout the federal government.8 SXXI assists in the process of obtaining a frequency assignment and also carries out other support functions, including interference analysis. NTIA also keeps cur rent a Government Master File that catalogs the frequencies assigned to all U.S.
|
From page 155... ...
11 See, for example, Federal Communications Commission, "Order Dismissing Applications and Staff Report: Staff Analysis and Findings," https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/ DA-11-1955A2.pdf, accessed January 26, 2015.
|
From page 156... ...
By 2012 the band had be reduced to 30 MHz and reallocated to allow mobile terrestrial service and now called AWS-4 (Advanced Wireless Services, Band 4)
|
From page 157... ...
A complicated bureaucracy for getting a communication license runs counter to the education intent and is a serious impediment to the success of the educational CubeSat program. There is also confusion about what license to seek.
|
From page 158... ...
The two disciplinary surveys most relevant to this report are the solar and space physics survey and the Earth science and applications from space survey.18 To date, neither decadal survey has addressed spectrum needs for these communities, although it would be beneficial to do so in the future. 18 The most recent survey of solar and space physics is Solar and Space Physics, 2013.
|
From page 159... ...
Recommendation 7.1: The science community should increase its participation in the International Telecommunications Union, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and the Federal Communications Commission spectrum management processes. This includes close monitoring of all spectrum management issues to provide early warning for areas of concern.
|
From page 160... ...
Recommendation 7.3: Given the importance of the educational CubeSat program for the development of the aerospace workforce and for the development of small satellite technology, the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Federal Com munications Commission, and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration should undertake a concerted and coordinated effort to eliminate impediments in the spectrum allocation process that are currently inhibiting the success of educational CubeSats. Recommendation 7.4: The next decadal surveys in solar and space physics (see Recommendation 5.2)
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.