Trading Wireless Capacity Through Spectrum Virtualization Using LTE-A

Trading wireless capacity through spectrum virtualization using LTE-A

Markets for spectrum were first proposed by Ronald Coase [1] as a way to efficiently allocate this resource. It took another forty years for primary markets to be developed (in the form of spectrum auctions) as the mechanism for assigning spectrum licenses to users. It is not a secret that secondary markets would be necessary to fully realize the benefits of economic allocation of spectrum. But...

A Novel LTE Wireless Virtualization Framework

Network virtualization is one of the topics that recently have been receiving attention in the research community. It is becoming evidently clear that network virtualization will be a major player in the shaping of the Future Internet. Many research projects around the world are studying different aspects of network virtualization: some are focusing on resource virtualization like Node, Server ...

Realizing the Broker Based Dynamic Spectrum Allocation through LTE Virtualization and Uniform Auctioning

The next generation wireless networks are envisioned to follow the philosophy of buy when required, when it comes to the CApital EXpenditure(CAPEX) of operators over the infrastructure installation or extending new and dynamic resources. The dream of open market for new entrants and their coexistence with giant operators can be realized by the fancy concept of virtualization, which will be one ...

Spectrum Virtualization Layer

This paper presents an architecture to support dynamic spectrum access (DSA) in general wireless networks. Our architecture advocates a new spectrum virtualization layer (SVL), directly below the wireless physical layer (PHY or baseband processing). We call it Layer 0.5. SVL presents a virtual baseband to traditional wireless PHY, which is designed for a fixed contiguous spectrum band with fixe...

U-LTE: Unlicensed Spectrum Utilization of LTE