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We consider an approach based on property rights mismatch to analyze conflict over radio spectrum. A mismatch occurs when the bundle of property rights created to enable social coordination fails to achieve this objective, leading to missed opportunities for productive exchange. With radio spectrum, these conflicts often result from technological changes that increase prospects (and satisfy demand for) sharing spectrum. Our focus is on how property regimes contribute to conflict as a result of mismatch, as well as how they might be resolved, for two examples of spectrum: passive and active spectrum uses and mobile services on the unlicensed band.
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A Property-Rights Mismatch Approach to Passive-Active Spectrum Use Coexistence
Policies and regulations governing electromagnetic spectrum prioritize reducing conflict among active users of spectrum (transmitters), thereby enabling these active users to capture the values associated with property rights to spectrum. Coexistence of heterogeneous technologies and their enforcement have been well studied, but much less has been done to consider the coexistence of heterogeneous uses and the institutions that are necessary to address conflict arising among different users of spectrum.We argue that prevailing property-rights institutions that focus on reducing conflict among active users of spectrum generate a property mismatch that contributes to conflict with passive users of spectrum. Passive users are interested primarily in receiving signals transmitted by nature. The property-mismatch approach offers insight into how to redesign spectrum governance to balance the demands of both active and passive users. Particularly we argue that virtual parceling of the electromagnetic spectrum along a broader range of dimensions can better facilitate efficient spectrum sharing between active and passive users.
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- PAR ID:
- 10392320
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN)
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 89 to 96
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1109/DySPAN53946.2021.9677235
