Spectrum management system: A study

Abstract

The number of radio systems in operation worldwide is huge and increasing rapidly. Liberalization and deregulation are introducing new services and new technologies, thereby generating unprecedented demand for radio frequencies. Effective Spectrum Management can make a big difference to a country's prosperity, especially in terms of wireless technologies which have become the main means of connecting businesses and households to voice, data and media services. The underlying objectives of any spectrum management system should be to convey policy goals, apportion scarce resources and avoid conflicts. This paper explains the comparison of spectra between available Spectrum Management Systems among several countries such as Turkey, United Kingdom, Indonesia and Canada. A fine comparison should be made in order to produce an effective Spectrum Management System and to identify how other countries had managed their spectra effectively. Comparison will touch on several aspects such as its authority, documentation, policy and its allocation. Instead of doing a survey, this paper will review several published papers and analyse the collected data. By producing this paper, we expect that it can be an alternative for Malaysia to upgrade the e-Spectrum system by MCMC (Malaysia Communications and Multimedia Commission) to be one of the most effective systems together with the other emerging countries in Spectrum Management.