TY - JOUR
T1 - Regulatory pilot on licensed shared access in a live LTE-TDD network in IMT band 40
AU - Guiducci, Doriana
AU - Carciofi, Claudia
AU - Petrini, Valeria
AU - Pompei, Sergio
AU - Faccioli, Manuel
AU - Spina, Eva
AU - De Sipio, Giuseppe
AU - Massimi, Domenico
AU - Spoto, Domenico
AU - Amerighi, Fabrizio
AU - Magliocca, Tommaso
AU - Chawdhry, Pravir
AU - Chareau, Jean-Marc
AU - Bishop, James
AU - Viaud, Philippe
AU - Pinato, Tiziano
AU - Yrjölä, Seppo
AU - Hartikainen, Vesa
AU - Tudose, Lucia
AU - Llorente, Jesús
AU - Ferrer, Vicent
AU - Costa Requena, Jose
AU - Kokkinen, Heikki
AU - Ardito, Luigi
AU - Muller, Pierre-Jean
AU - Gianesin, Massimiliano
AU - Grazioli, Fausto
AU - Caggiati, Donatella
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This paper presents the Italian pilot on licensed shared access (LSA) in the IMT Band 40 to explore the potential and logistics of spectrum sharing from a regulatory perspective. Organized on a small cell/micro cell scale, it verified both the technical feasibility and regulatory compliance of LSA in a real, LTE-TDD network, constrained by the national spectrum use in Band 40. The LSA system was implemented in compliance with the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations, ETSI, and 3GPP specifications. We present an innovative distributed architecture implemented across three countries, enabling certain features of 5G networks. We describe the sharing framework and sharing conditions in the Italian scenario for the use cases representing actual incumbents. These were verified through in-field measurements, key results of which are presented. Measurement results show that sharing based on LSA is feasible to provide additional capacity for mobile broad-band services in the 2300-2400 MHz band without detriment to incumbent services. Use of commercial off-the-shelf equipment to create new mobile broadband service in an urban indoor/outdoor environment pilot enabled us to assess the spectrum sharing opportunities through LSA technology for general deployment today and toward future policy for 5G spectrum in Italy.
AB - This paper presents the Italian pilot on licensed shared access (LSA) in the IMT Band 40 to explore the potential and logistics of spectrum sharing from a regulatory perspective. Organized on a small cell/micro cell scale, it verified both the technical feasibility and regulatory compliance of LSA in a real, LTE-TDD network, constrained by the national spectrum use in Band 40. The LSA system was implemented in compliance with the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations, ETSI, and 3GPP specifications. We present an innovative distributed architecture implemented across three countries, enabling certain features of 5G networks. We describe the sharing framework and sharing conditions in the Italian scenario for the use cases representing actual incumbents. These were verified through in-field measurements, key results of which are presented. Measurement results show that sharing based on LSA is feasible to provide additional capacity for mobile broad-band services in the 2300-2400 MHz band without detriment to incumbent services. Use of commercial off-the-shelf equipment to create new mobile broadband service in an urban indoor/outdoor environment pilot enabled us to assess the spectrum sharing opportunities through LSA technology for general deployment today and toward future policy for 5G spectrum in Italy.
U2 - 10.1109/TCCN.2017.2750670
DO - 10.1109/TCCN.2017.2750670
M3 - Article
SN - 2332-7731
VL - 3
SP - 534
EP - 549
JO - IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
JF - IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
IS - 3
ER -