1. Gerhard Mayer & Darrell Ernst ETTC 2007 Toulouse
The ICTS and WRC 2011
Gerhard Mayer & Darrell Ernst
ETTC Toulouse

2. Agenda Situation just before WRC 2007 The new spectrum environment
Support of spectrum innovation
What happens after WRC 2007 ??
ICTS and WRC 2011
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3. Situation just before WRC 2007
5 additional bands for AMT under study (4,4 to 6,7GHz). All bands have other users.
CPM is the primary decision basis for delegates and describes advantages / disadvantages, on basis of compatibility and technical studies agreed upon at WP8B.
ICTS exhibition during the WRC is a last chance, to show the importance of AI 1.5 to the delegates and decision makers.
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4. The new spectrum environment
Services with very different signal structures have to co-exist
A certain interference level must be accepted – from non-interference to a tolerable interference base
Exploit the potential of a dynamic allocation instead of static. But coordinaton function needed
Integrity of critical services has to be ensured
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5. ICTS must support spectrum innovation
Help to:
Develop optimum sharing strategies with a minimum probability of interference
Exploit the remaining potential in bandwidth- limited, lossless communictions down to Shannon´s limit
Motivate for a coordinated „live together“ and determine what levels of interference are acceptable
Exploit the upper GHz – region (> 30 GHz), incl. satellite relay & free space optics
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6. What happens after WRC 2007??
If AMT gets additional allocations, sharing must occur with e.g.
AM(R)S, ARNS, FSS & MSS (earth / space stations), MS(WAS), RAS..
Coordinating institutions needed, national & international
Frequency range 16 to 30 GHz: to be studied with the aim that WRC 2011 is able to resolve an AI for the following (WRC 2015 ?)
ICTS members must USE NEW BANDS
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7. ICTS support until 2011
Develop strategy for global harmonized allocations in bands approved by WRC 2007
Develop process for international coordination of frequencies
- cross border tests of aircraft
- science missions with balloons and sounding rockets
Support international pilot projects to study potential of bands over 16 GHz (technology, propagation, operation)
Study implications of UAS , flight test TM, TM and TC&C of operational flights in nonsegregated airspace, operational payload TM
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8. Conclusions WRC 2007 was just a first phase for the ICTS
The only chance for further success is the close work-together of the global telemetering community
The contacts built up with international aerospace industries, academia and spectrum regulators during the WRC 2007 process have to be further developed and tightened
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