How Measurement of Spectrum Occupancy can help Spectrum Management
Organised by
Working Group Frequency Management (WG FM) of the ECC
Date 15 January 2014, Mainz (Germany)
PROGRAMME
08.30Registration
09.00 –09.15Welcome and opening of the workshop
Mr Eric Fournier, Chairman of ECC, ANFR, France
09.15–09.30Key Note; Introduction to Spectrum Management
Mr Sergey Pastukh, Chairman of ECC WG FM, Russian Federation
09.30 - 11.00 Session A: Requirements of and Developments in spectrum occupancy measurements (Note: presentations should cover frequency range 400-6000 MHz)
Session chairman: Mr Sergey Pastukh, Chairman of ECC WG FM
Speaker 1 Mr Ralf Trautmann, BNetzA,Germany, Chairman FM22
Summary of the discussions so far in ECC fora, key issues
Speaker 2
Laurent Bodusseau, ANFR, France Expectations from spectrum managers of administrations and operators
Speaker 3 Thomas Hasenpusch (BnetzA)Definitions of spectrum occupancy
Speaker 4 Lilian Jeanty (Agentschap Telecom)The instruments of spectrum monitoring
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 - 13.00Session B: Presentation of Selected Case Studies
Session chairman: Mr Ralf Trautmann, Chairman FM22
Speaker 1 Jim Beveridge, MicrosoftMicrosoft Spectrum Observatory
Speaker 2 ThomasKrenz,Requirements to obtain useful results
(Rhode &Schwarz) from spectrum occupancy
measurements
Speaker 3Stefan Georgi (Medav)Spectrum Occupancy Measurements Tools
Speaker 4Simon William Day (Mass, OFCOM UK)
Monitoring Activity in the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands and handling of the generated large
13.00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:45 Session C: Presentation of Selected Case Studies (continued)
Session chairman: Yrio Hämäläinen, FICORA, Vicechairman FM PT22
Speaker 1Prof. Martin Weiss(University of Pittsburgh)
Role of sensing for identifying «spectrum holes»
Speaker 2: Pravir Chawdhry (JRC)Effective spectrum monitoring using mobile nodes
Speaker 3Matthias Fehr, (Association of Professional Wireless Production Technologies)
Experience with sensing radiomicrophones (PMSE applications) in the UHF spectrum
Speaker 4 John Falck (LPRA) Measurement of Spectrum Occupancy - A perception from industry
Speaker 5 Thomas Weber (ECO)Are sensing approaches mature enough to support cognitive radio solutions – Summary of the investigations in WGFM and WGSE so far
15.45 – 16:15 Coffee
16.15 – 17:00 Session D: Panel discussion and guidelines for further work Session chairman:Mr. Eric Fournier, ANFR, ECC Chairman
- Panellists
- Mr Sergey Pastukh, Chairman WG FM
- Jim Beveridge, Microsoft
- Laurent Bodusseau, ANFR
- Thomas Weber, ECO
- Thomas Hasenpusch, BNetzA
17:00- 17.20Summary of the Workshop and closing remarks
Mr Ralf Trautmann, BNetzA, Chairman FM22
Note: limitations in terms of analysis of such spectrum occupancy measurement. Conclusions of this workshop will be presented to ECC and published on the CEPT website.
17:20End of Workshop
Organisation:
Anouncement of the Workshop should take place directly after the ECC#35. This can be done on the applicable webpages (CEPT workshop webpage, meeting calendar, WGFM, PT FM22) and reflectors. Speakers will be provided with some guidance from the PT FM22 chairman with the support from the ECO. Speakers should provide a short biography and short abstract of their presentations in advance.
Results:
The final workshop results are expected to be agreed at WGFM#79 before publication of the results on the relevant ECC websites and publications such as ECC Newsletter.
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