Sharing Spectrum the Smart Way Effect of Secondary Network Parameters on Policy Design

difference in average throughput when different numbers of channels are normalized is minimal. As the number of users increases, it is clear that normalizing a higher percentage of the channels becomes more optimal. However, Fig. 3 also shows that the average throughput plateaus as the number of normalized channels increases: the marginal benefit of normalizing more channels drops off substantially. This observation suggests that there is an “optimum k” for any given scenario, where k is the number of channels normalized, using the assumption that normalizing fewer channels is more efficient.