Impact of Geographical Separation on Spectrum Sharing Markets

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Auteurs principaux: Mu, Kangle, Xie, Zongyun, Kadota, Igor, Berry, Randall
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author Mu, Kangle
Xie, Zongyun
Kadota, Igor
Berry, Randall
author_facet Mu, Kangle
Xie, Zongyun
Kadota, Igor
Berry, Randall
contents With the increasing demand for wireless services, spectrum management agencies and service providers (SPs) are seeking more flexible mechanisms for spectrum sharing to accommodate this growth. Such mechanisms impact the market dynamics of competitive SPs. Prior market models of spectrum sharing largely focus on scenarios where competing SPs had identical coverage areas. We depart from this and consider a scenario in which two competing SPs have overlapping but distinct coverage areas. We study the resulting competition using a Cournot model. Our findings reveal that with limited shared bandwidth, SPs might avoid overlapping areas to prevent potential losses due to interference. Sometimes SPs can strategically cooperate by agreeing not to provide service in the overlapping areas and, surprisingly, customers might also benefit from such cooperation under certain circumstances. Overall, market outcomes exhibit complex behaviors that are influenced by the sizes of coverage areas and the bandwidth of the shared spectrum.
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spellingShingle Impact of Geographical Separation on Spectrum Sharing Markets
Mu, Kangle
Xie, Zongyun
Kadota, Igor
Berry, Randall
Systems and Control
Theoretical Economics
With the increasing demand for wireless services, spectrum management agencies and service providers (SPs) are seeking more flexible mechanisms for spectrum sharing to accommodate this growth. Such mechanisms impact the market dynamics of competitive SPs. Prior market models of spectrum sharing largely focus on scenarios where competing SPs had identical coverage areas. We depart from this and consider a scenario in which two competing SPs have overlapping but distinct coverage areas. We study the resulting competition using a Cournot model. Our findings reveal that with limited shared bandwidth, SPs might avoid overlapping areas to prevent potential losses due to interference. Sometimes SPs can strategically cooperate by agreeing not to provide service in the overlapping areas and, surprisingly, customers might also benefit from such cooperation under certain circumstances. Overall, market outcomes exhibit complex behaviors that are influenced by the sizes of coverage areas and the bandwidth of the shared spectrum.
title Impact of Geographical Separation on Spectrum Sharing Markets
topic Systems and Control
Theoretical Economics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20909