ficora trial avausseminaari 7.6.2011 jan engelberg
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16/8/2011
Regulatory Aspects Related to Cognitive Radio Systems
Trial – Kogniitiivisen radion ja verkon kokeiluympäristö –avausseminaari 7.6.2011
Jan Engelberg
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Content
Background
History and Ongoing Work
Legislation
Regulatory Challenges
Expectations from Tekes' Trial programme
Future Activities
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The Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA) oversees the use of radio frequencies in Finland.
Objectives
Interference free radio frequencies to all users
Ensure that technically and economically feasible radio frequencies can be assigned future radio systems – without restricting the use of radio frequencies for present radio systems
International and national regulations ITU-R Radio Regulation
European Union Spectrum Decisions
CEPT Decisions, Recommendations and Reports
Radio Act (1015/2001, 432/2010)
Radio Frequency Regulation (M4) and its Appendix (Table of Frequency Allocations)
Statute No. 1169/2009 of the Council of State: On the use of radio frequencies and frequency plan
Statute No. 1158/2002 of the Council of State: On the utilisation plan in the Province of Åland of the frequency bands allocated to television and radio broadcasting as well as to telecommunications subject to licence
Statute No. 1799/2009 of the MINTC: On the utilisation plan of radio frequencies
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FICORA regulation and guidance on spectrum use FICORA 1: On the conformity assessment and marking of radio equipment
FICORA 2: On inspection of radio transmitters with a great risk of causing interference
FICORA 6: Regulations governing amateur radio stations and their use
FICORA 15: On collective frequencies for radio transmitters exempted from licensing and on their use
FICORA 18: On requirements for certificates of proficiency in maritime and amateur radiocommunicationNotice: Common channels subject to licence and allocated to trade and industry throughout Finland
Notice: Digital common DMR channels subject to licence and allocated to trade and industry throughout Finland
Notice: Channels in the 67 – 72 MHz frequency band reserved for hobby usage and professional communications
Notice: Common data transmission and D-GPS channels subject to licence throughout Finland
Notice: Frequencies and constructional requirements for fixed radio networks using radio modems
Notice: Use of radio links in the frequency band 57.2 - 58.2 GHz
Notice: Maritime channelling tables
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International work
27 Member States 48 Member States
StakeholdersFICORA Neighbouring countries
191 Member States
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History and Ongoing Work
WRC-07 agreed on the new Agenda Item for WRC-12:
Agenda Item 1.19: ”to consider regulatory measures and their relevance, in order to enable the introduction of software-defined radio and cognitive radio systems, based on the results of ITU-R studies, in accordance with Resolution 956 (WRC-07)”
Responsible group in ITU-R Working Party 1B
Report ITU-R SM.2152 “Definitions of Software Defined Radio (SDR) and Cognitive Radio System (CRS)”
CPM text finalized in February 2011
No change (NOC) in the RR, possibly a new Resolution on future studies either in RA-12 or WRC-12
WRC-12 in February 2012
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History and Ongoing Work (2)Other work in ITU-R is based on the Question ITU-R 241-1/5 “Cognitive radio systems in the mobile service”1 What is the ITU definition of cognitive radio systems?
2 What are the closely related radio technologies (e.g. smart radio, reconfigurable radio, policy-defined adaptive radio and their associated control mechanisms) and their functionalities that may be a part of cognitive radio systems?
3 What key technical characteristics, requirements, performance and benefits are associated with the implementation of cognitive radio systems?
4 What are the potential applications of cognitive radio systems and their impact on spectrum management?
5 What are the operational implications (including privacy and authentication) of cognitive radio systems?
6 What are the cognitive capabilities that could facilitate coexistence with existing systems in the mobile service and in other radiocommunication services, such as broadcast, mobile satellite or fixed?7 What spectrum-sharing techniques can be used to implement cognitive radio systems to ensure coexistence with other users?
8 How can cognitive radio systems promote the efficient use of radio resources?
Draft Report ITU-R [LMS.CRS] in Working Party 5A, still in progress
Possible extension/modification of Question 241-1/5 is under consideration in Study Group 5 due to unanswered parts of the Question
WP5D studying CRS in the context of IMT (study was initiated by WP itself)
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History and Ongoing Work (3)
Electronic Communications Committee (ECC) activities (CEPT – Europe)
SE PT 43 - define technical and operational requirements for the operation of cognitive radio systems in the white spaces of the UHF broadcasting band (470-790 MHz) to ensure the protection of incumbent radio services/systems and investigate the consequential amount of spectrum potentially available as “white space”
WG FM CG-CRS: possible bands suitable for secondary systems using CRS techniques
WG RA CG-CRS: management, enforcement, placing CRS equipment into market, authorization models, harmonisation
European Union RSPG Report RSPG10-306 and Opinion RSPG10-348 on Cognitive Technologies
Legislation in Finland Current legislation already allows the use of Cognitive Radio Systems in the
frequency band 470-790 MHz, however CRS cannot claim protection nor cause interference to other radiocommunication
Several trial licenses issued by FICORA
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Regulatory Challenges
A lot of open questions:
What is CRS?
Which capabilities are needed to define a radio system as a cognitive radio?
Have a direct impact to the development of licensing policy/regulatory regime:
licensed/license exempt
frequency bands (dedicated bands in frequency plan)
technical license conditions
Technical requirements
Database
Sensing
CPC
Combined Something else?
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Regulatory Challenges (2)
Operative requirements
Location accuracy
Changing radio environment,
Update interval of database
Sensing accuracy/capability
Protection on incumbents needs to be verified carefully through the simulations, field tests and measurements in advance
Changes in the legislations – timing issue
Technical challenges
Can be finally met as technology evolves
Aim of the Regulation is to promote efficient and interference free use of scarce radio spectrum!
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Expectation from TEKES Trial programme
CORECognitive R&D trial environment
Verification method for assessing the performance of CR system
Cognitive radio field trial and analysis Network testing and analysis tools
Core and access network requirements
Business models for CR trial environment and selected applications
WISEEvaluation of Database performance
Criteria for Database
Technical and operational challenges related to database
Database security requirements
Test environment with the possibility to evaluate performance of different database solutions
Value chains and ecosystems
FICORA
Exchange of ideas and knowledge
Co-operation/contributions/material to the preparatory work within ECC, EU and ITU-R
FICORA will provide necessary regulative information to programme in order to reflect real world
where rules and regulation exist, however this is done without unnecessary burdens and constraints!
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Future Activities
Use results and experience from TEKES Trial in the development of required regulative regime for the introduction and implementation of CRS in various forums (ECC, EU and ITU-R) for the following years.
Develop necessary national regulation with enough flexibility in time, taking into account all stakeholders and regulations developed elsewhere (EU and ITU-R).
Participate actively in the above mentioned forums and keeping TEKES Trial programme aware of the regulative developments and requirements.
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