TECHNO-ECONOMIC REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR RADIO SPECTRUM ACCESS FOR COGNITIVE RADIO/SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO (TERRA) Oliver Holland, King’s College London 6 July 2010

What is European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)? An inter-governmental framework for European cooperation, allowing the coordination of nationally-funded research on a European level Managed by the European Science Foundation (ESF) Primarily European, but also has involvement of countries with which there are reciprocal agreements, as well as other “non- COST” countries considered on a COST action-by-action basis COST, together with EUREKA and the EU framework programmes, is one of the three pillars of joint European research initiatives. These three complementary structures have differing areas of research A prominent domain of COST is Information and Communication Technologies (abbreviated to “IC”). COST IC0905 (TERRA) is an action within this domain

Purpose of COST IC0905 (TERRA) To bring together technical and economic experts to spearhead a regulatory breakthrough for CR/SDR technology in Europe

Objectives Primary: Develop a comprehensive techno-economic regulatory framework for radio spectrum access rules for CR/SDR, catering for envisaged CR/SDR deployment scenarios, fostering the development of wireless industries, and serving consumer interests in general Secondary: Assistance (in the form of know-how) to European regulators and regulatory/standardisation bodies, such as CEPT, ETSI, EC, etc.

Work programme Development and selection of plausible deployment scenarios for CR/SDR, based on results from a range of technological R&D activities (Working Group 1) Research into the technical feasibility of regulatory options pertaining to CR/SDR under these deployment scenarios (Working Group 2) Research into economic implications/benefits of regulatory options under these deployment scenarios (Working Group 3) Overall impact assessment and study of the benefits to society of developed regulatory options (Working Group 4)

Work programme Two distinct phases: Pre-WRC-2012 – defining the stage and trying to build material that might be fed into WRC influencing a European Common Proposal Post-WRC-2012 – completing analysis taking note of WRC decisions on the issue of CR (if any). Input to other regulatory meetings/activities, including assisting in defining the agenda for the next WRC

Organisation and management Core Management Chair, Vice-Chair, Working Group Chairs/Vice-Chairs, Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) Coordinator, Grant Holder. Of course, all are Management Committee members Management Committee (MC) Democratic decision-making entity for action, meeting twice / year Two members from each country, one vote per country Currently 12 countries are members, and 4 more countries are in the process of joining Working Groups (WGs) Each have Chair/Vice-Chair STSMs Coordinator Grant Holder

Current Management Committee 12 countries joined Belgium, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom 4 countries in the process of joining Croatia, France, Greece, Spain Currently has representatives or involvement of people from ETSI, SCC41, CEPT, Swiss regulator, German regulator (pending), and many EU projects Management Committee (members and substitute members) Mr Simon DELAERE, Prof. Pieter BALLON (Pending), Prof. Mislav GRGIC, Mr Zeljko TABAKOVIC, Ms Marja MATINMIKKO, Prof. Heikki HAMMAINEN, Dr Mikko UUSITALO, Dr Maurice BELLANGER, Dr Markus MUECK, Dr Petri MAHONEN (Pending), Dr Karl-Josef FRIEDERICHS, Mr Karsten BUCKWITZ, Dr Periklis CHATZIMISIOS, Dr Keith NOLAN, Dr Tim FORDE (Pending), Prof. Linda DOYLE (Pending), Dr Luca DE NARDIS, Dr Leo Fulvio MINERVINI, Dr Arturas MEDEISIS, Prof. Vladislav FOMIN, Dr Andrius USINSKAS, Mr Peter ANKER, Dr Raul CHAVEZ- SANTIAGO, Dr Yan ZHANG, Prof. Ilangko BALASINGHAM, Dr Maciej NAWROCKI, Dr Dariusz WIECEK, Prof. Fernando Jose VELEZ, Dr Christos VERIKOUKIS, Mr Dirk-Oliver VON DER EMDEN, Dr Oliver HOLLAND, Prof. Jiangzhou WANG

WRC /2014 Q1Q2Q3Q4Q1Q2Q3Q4Q1Q2Q3Q4 Kick-off MC meetingX MC meetingsXXXXXXXX WG1 meetingsXXXXXX WG2 meetingsXXXXXXX WG3 meetingsXXXXX WG4 meetingsXXXXX Public workshopsWWWW Website updateXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Preliminary timetable

Collaboration with SCC41 Would be beneficial to both parties COST IC0905 would be happy with almost any form of collaboration agreement, or indeed informal collaboration. There are three options Informal ad hoc cooperation More structured cooperation through, e.g., a memorandum of understanding The formal COST or non-COST country membership (for SCC41-involved institutions?) There are many possible areas of such collaboration, for example Collaboration as regards meeting planning and collocation, increasing interest and participation in both SCC41 and IC0905 due to a wider group of collocated attendees, better value venue deals, etc. Mutual support as regards possible dissemination attempts Encouraged participation in each others’ meetings, e.g., in the form of invited presentations, meeting announcements, etc. Support in polling opinions among each others’ memberships for research Sharing of some information to improve understanding and relevance of each others efforts

Example: MoU Between WInnF and COST IC0905 (signed 22 June) Between the Wireless Innovation Forum (WInnF), formerly SDR Forum, and COST IC0905 WInnF is a major driver of wireless technologies, in particular SDR and those facilitated by SDR (such as CR and wider dynamic spectrum access) within the Americas, and increasingly also in other parts of the world (e.g., Europe, Asia) Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) includes the following Mutual invitations to submit to each others’ meetings at own expense Exchange of information on respective work plans, white papers, requests for comments and other information in the area of future development Consideration of holding joint workshops and working meetings Cooperation as appropriate in assisting each other with dissemination of respective results of research and standardization initiatives Sharing of information and possible assistance as appropriate in conducting surveys among respective memberships Mutual publication of this cooperation and provision links to each others’ web sites Copyright remains with originator, there is a get-out clause with a short notice period, and any shared information is considered “non-confidential”

Further Information and Contacts A range of up-to-date information on the COST IC0905 (TERRA) action is available at its web site: COST IC0905 Contacts: Chair: Arturas Medeisis, Vice-Chair: Oliver Holland, Working Group 1 Chair: Luca de Nardis, Working Group 2 Chair: Fernando Velez,