Spectrum Management Systems

Future Developments in Spectrum Management Systems

In a command and control regime, the spectrum administration must know who is using the spectrum and where. The administration is responsible for intervention wherever licence conditions are breached. In a markets-based spectrum management regime, the markets play a major role in policing with civil court action between users proposed to resolve interference.

In a command and control regime the administration gathers occupancy data to inform its own policy. IN a markets-based regime, new market entrants carry out monitoring as a form of due diligence to ensure that the spectrum in which it is to make an investment is indeed good for the purpose intended. The new entrant might employ private contractors to undertake this investigation.

And in a market-based regime the regulator would want to undertake monitoring and spectrum quality measurements when designing spectrum packages for auction.

Each of these cases needs a very different approach to monitoring. The world is adopting more of a markets orientation and whilst the traditional high cost fixed and mobile monitoring prevails, noise temperature measurements (for spectrum quality), unattended monitoring and indeed no monitoring at all are in use today depending on the needs of the markets and nation-state. InterConnect consultants have been at the forefront of monitoring system development and are able to advise from a position of high technical and operational competence.