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Project
Acronym: TERRA 
Name: Techno-Economic Regulatory Framework for Radio Spectrum Access for Cognitive Radio/Software Defined Radio  
Project status: From: 2010-05-07 To: 2014-05-06 (Completed)
Type (Programme): COST 
Croatian partner
Organisation name: Fakultet elektrotehnike i računarstva 
Contact person name: prof.dr.sc. Mislav Grgić
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Short description of project
The main objective of this Action is to develop a comprehensive techno-economic regulatory framework of radio spectrum access rules for CR/SDR-based wireless applications, catering for envisaged CR/SDR deployment scenarios and shown to benefit most optimally the development of the wireless industries and consumer interests at large. Furthermore, the Action will provide assistance to European administrations in formulating a European position on radio spectrum access rules for CR/SDR applications. This Action will establish a multi-disciplinary European forum focused on coordinating techno-economic studies for the development of a harmonised European regulatory framework to facilitate the advancement and broad commercial deployment of Cognitive Radio/Software Defined Radio (CR/SDR) systems. The Action will leverage on results and experiences from national and international research initiatives and early standard-setting activities by recommending sound regulatory policies that would facilitate fastest possible uptake and proliferation of CR/SDR. The need for this Action has been supported by European regulators in the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT). They stated willingness to use the results of the Action in their work on developing the harmonised European regulatory regime for CR/SDR. Very conveniently, proposals elaborated by the Action could also be used as a part of European contributions to the forthcoming World Radiocommunications Conference in 2012, which has CR/SDR regulatory policy on its agenda.  Researchers involved in the Croatian scientific project 036-0982560-1635: "Picture Quality Management in Digital Video Broadcasting" have an extensive experience in the area of digital video broadcasting with application to multimedia communications, opportunistic radio spectrum access and radio spectrum regulation. Our main contribution to COST project IC0905 can be made within WG2 - CR/SDR co-existence studies, where we can help with the development and analysis of deployment scenarios for CR/SDR secondary systems in co-existence with primary licensed systems, opportunistic radio spectrum access for CR/SDR systems finding balance in conflicting goals of satisfying performance requirements while minimizing interference and development of radio spectrum access rules for efficient use of radio spectrum for CR/SDR based wireless applications. Besides, we can also work on ?technical conditions for harmonized and efficient utilization of the digital dividend, the portions of premium UHF spectrum that will be made accessible thanks to switch-over of analogue TV transmissions to more spectrally efficient digital technologies. Finally, part of our current research work is focusing on radio resource manager and transmit power control for SR/SDR secondary systems, and therefore we can contribute in this area also. The results of our involvement in the COST project IC0905 will be disseminated though publications in high impact factor journals and presented at national and international conferences.   


   

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