Trends in modern RF Spectrum Management
Carlos E. Caicedo Bastidas, PhD.

Abstract: Wireless communication services and associated applications rely on the use of radio frequency (RF) spectrum resources for their operation. Due to the growth in the use of these services, spectrum management agencies and wireless service providers need to create and establish flexible spectrum assignment mechanisms as a means to respond to the increasing demand for spectrum resources. Traditionally, frequencies within the RF spectrum have been "statically" allocated to wireless service providers, with restrictions imposed on the technologies to be used and the services to be provided. Thus, the lack of flexibility in current spectrum allocation and assignment methods has led to an artificial spectrum scarcity and an inefficient use of current spectrum resources. This has motivated the development of new technical, economic, and regulatory approaches for improved spectrum access that can accommodate and support the growing need for spectrum for current and new wireless services.

This tutorial will introduce and present the mechanisms and initiatives that regulatory and standardization entities are considering to modernize RF spectrum management. Technical, economic and regulatory elements that will foster the use of spectrum sharing and dynamic spectrum assignment mechanisms will be explained in sufficient detail for attendees to understand their benefits, tradeoffs and viability in the wireless service provision and spectrum management environments of the near future.

Biography of lecturer: Dr. Carlos E. Caicedo Bastidas is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and Director of the Center for Convergence and Emerging Network Technologies (CCENT). He has a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and holds M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and from the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Arizona, a teaching fellow at the University of Pittsburgh as well as an instructor professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia.

Dr. Caicedo is a member of ACM and IEEE (Communications, Computer and Education societies). He is also a member of the IEEE Standards Association and of the IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access and Networks Standardization Committee’s (DySPAN-SC) 1900.5 Working group on Policy Language and Policy Architectures for Managing Cognitive Radio for Dynamic Spectrum Access Applications. His research interests are in the areas of Dynamic Spectrum Access, new wireless markets and technologies, information security and agent-based modeling.

Detailed outline:

1. Radio regulation models: an Introduction
1. Licensed and unlicensed spectrum
2. Evolution of radio regulation models
2. Dynamic spectrum access (DSA)
1. Enabling technologies
2. Benefits and tradeoffs
3. Spectrum Access and Sharing
1. Models for spectrum access and sharing
2. Policy based spectrum management
3. The IEEE P1900 Standards
1. General description
2. IEEE 1900.5.2 – Spectrum Consumption Models (SCM)
• Use cases and benefits of SCM
• Determining spectrum use compatibility with SCMs
4. Initiatives to enable DSA and spectrum sharing in modern regulatory frameworks
1. US (FCC)
2. UK (OFCOM)
3. Others
5. Perspectives for future wireless service provision environments
1. Spectrum trading markets
1. Market architectures
2. Requirements for technical and economic viability
2. Impact of spectrum management trends on future services:
1. Business sector
2. Safety and disaster recovery applications
3. Military sector
4. Health and education sectors

Future of Optical Communication Systems and Networks
Fabio Pittalá, Jorge López Vizcaíno
Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, European Research Center

Abstract: Optical communication based on fibre-optic has revolutionised telecommunications enabling high-speed (>100 Gb/s per channel) and high-capacity (>10 Tbit/s per fiber) transmissions over long distances (>1000 km). However, the proliferation of bandwidth-hungry services, such as high-definition TV, cloud computing and business applications has led to an ever increasing demand of Internet traffic. Therefore, significant research efforts in optical transport networks as well as dramatic changes in the optical networking paradigms are required.

The tutorial presents the main challenges and trends for the next-generation optical communication technology and optical networking. Topics such as channel modelling, advanced transceivers design, network planning and software defined networking are covered.

Biography of lecturers: Fabio Pittalà (M’12) received his M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 2011. Since mid-2011 he is working as Researcher at the European Research Center of Huawei Technologies in Munich (Germany). His research interests are on the field digital signal processing for high-speed optical communication systems.

Jorge López Vizcaíno (M’12) received the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 2011. Since 2012, he is a Researcher at the European Research Center of Huawei Technologies in Munich (Germany). His research interests are in network planning, optical networking technologies, network protocols, energy-efficiency and elastic optical networks.

Detailed outline:

1. Introduction
1. Challenges for the Network of the Future
2. Telecom Network Overview
2. Optical Communication Systems
1. Optical Channel
2. Transmitter
3. Receivers
4. Amplifiers
5. State of the Art of Product Development
6. The Next Frontier
3. Optical Networking
1. What is an Optical Network?
2. Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM)
3. Future Optical Networks