TY - JOUR
T1 - Adoption of dynamic spectrum access technologies
T2 - a system dynamics approach
AU - Basaure, Arturo
AU - Sridhar, Varadharajan
AU - Hämmäinen, Heikki
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been partially funded by the End-to-End Cognitive Radio testbed project of Aalto University, which is part of the Tekes TRIAL program. Authors thank to Kalle Ruttik and to anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - The introduction of dynamic spectrum access (DSA) technologies in mobile markets faces technical, economic and regulatory challenges. This paper defines industry openness and spectrum centralization as the two key factors that affect the adoption of DSA technologies. The adoption process is analyzed employing a comprehensive System Dynamics model that considers the network and substitution effects. Two possible scenarios, namely operator-centric and user-centric adoption of DSA technologies are explored in the model. The analysis indicates that operator-centric DSA technologies may be adopted in most countries where spectrum is centralized, while end-user centric DSA technologies may be adopted in countries with decentralized spectrum regime and in niche emerging services. The study highlights the role of standards-based design and concludes by citing case studies that show the practicality of this analysis and associated policy prescriptions.
AB - The introduction of dynamic spectrum access (DSA) technologies in mobile markets faces technical, economic and regulatory challenges. This paper defines industry openness and spectrum centralization as the two key factors that affect the adoption of DSA technologies. The adoption process is analyzed employing a comprehensive System Dynamics model that considers the network and substitution effects. Two possible scenarios, namely operator-centric and user-centric adoption of DSA technologies are explored in the model. The analysis indicates that operator-centric DSA technologies may be adopted in most countries where spectrum is centralized, while end-user centric DSA technologies may be adopted in countries with decentralized spectrum regime and in niche emerging services. The study highlights the role of standards-based design and concludes by citing case studies that show the practicality of this analysis and associated policy prescriptions.
KW - Dynamic spectrum access
KW - Industry openness
KW - Spectrum centralization
KW - System dynamics
KW - User-centric and operator-centric adoption scenarios
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U2 - 10.1007/s11235-015-0113-7
DO - 10.1007/s11235-015-0113-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84948176581
SN - 1018-4864
VL - 63
SP - 169
EP - 190
JO - Telecommunication Systems
JF - Telecommunication Systems
IS - 2
ER -