A Quantitative Approach to Wireless Spectrum Regulation
A quantitative approach to wireless spectrum regulation Kate Harrison Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California at Berkeley Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2015-142 http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-142.html May 15, 2015 Copyright © 2015, by the author(s). All rights reserved. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission. Acknowledgement This thesis would not have been possible without the generous funding support of the United States National Science Foundation via CNS- 403427, CNS-0932410, CNS-1321155, ECCS-1343398, AST-1444078 and a Graduate Research Fellowship. A quantitative approach to wireless spectrum regulation by Kate Lee Harrison A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering — Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Anant Sahai, Chair Professor Jean Walrand Assistant Professor Sylvia Ratnasamy Professor John Chuang Spring 2015 A quantitative approach to wireless spectrum regulation Copyright 2015 by Kate Lee Harrison 1 Abstract Wireless spectrum regulation is an area of increasing interest, complexity, and importance. After decades of single-purpose, exclusive spectrum allocations, the Federal Communications Commis- sion (FCC) brought about the era of dynamically shared spectrum with their landmark ruling in 2008 [1].
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