Abstract
This paper seeks to identify and analyze the sources of
value creation and capture by key stakeholders in the new
Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) three tier
spectrum sharing framework introduced by the US
President's Council of Advanced Science & Technology.
More flexible and dynamic use of the 3.5 GHz spectrum
aims to increase the efficiency of spectrum use in
delivering fast growing and converging mobile broadband
and media services while paving the way to innovations in
technology and business models. In this paper, we focus
on key stakeholders' capability to deal with combined
internal and external resources and capabilities in doing
business, referred to as dynamic capability. Spectrum
sharing, introducing a rapid change in the technology and
business environments, requires dynamic capabilities from
spectrum offering, spectrum utilization, and spectrum
management perspectives. We focus on defining key CBRS
functional domains and identifying their key antecedents,
elements, and outcomes. The analysis highlights the key
role of the regulator in creating a sharing framework
with incentives for all the key stakeholders, with
different operational and business requirements, and
enabling scaling ecosystem. Increased system dynamics in
spectrum sharing will introduce a need for big data
analytics, near real time network management capabilities
and low cost third tier general authorized access radios,
leveraging dominant technology ecosystems. This study
provides viewpoints for stakeholders about additional
ingredients and actions, which may be relevant to promote
spectrum sharing in the form of the CBRS. The concept of
dynamic capabilities was found useful to analyze the
sources of competitive advantage regarding CBRS spectrum
sharing.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 187-201 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing |
Volume | 91 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- citizens broadband radio service
- cognitive radio
- dynamic capabilities
- spectrum sharing