Wireless technology prospects and policy options / National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.).

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Wireless Technology Prospects and Policy Options.

National Research Council (U.S.). Computer Science and Telecommunications Board.

National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wireless communication systems--United States.

Wireless communication systems.

Wireless communication systems--Government policy--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (113 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The use of radio-frequency communication--commonly referred to as wireless communication--is becoming more pervasive as well as more economically and socially important. Technological progress over many decades has enabled the deployment of several successive generations of cellular telephone technology, which is now used by many billions of people worldwide; the near-universal addition of wireless local area networking to personal computers; and a proliferation of actual and proposed uses of wireless communications. The flood of new technologies, applications, and markets has also opened up opportunities for examining and adjusting the policy framework that currently governs the management and use of the spectrum and the institutions involved in it, and models for allocating spectrum and charging for it have come under increasing scrutiny. Yet even as many agree that further change to the policy framework is needed, there is debate about precisely how the overall framework should be changed, what trajectory its evolution should follow, and how dramatic or rapid the change should be. Many groups have opinions, positions, demands, and desires related to these questions--reflecting multiple commercial, social, and political agendas and a mix of technical, economic, and social perspectives. The development of technologies and associated policy and regulatory regimes are often closely coupled, an interplay apparent as early as the 1910s, when spectrum policy emerged in response to the growth of radio communications. As outlined in this report, current and ongoing technological advances suggest the need for a careful reassessment of the assumptions that inform spectrum policy in the United States today. This book seeks to shine a spotlight on 21st-century technology trends and to outline the implications of emerging technologies for spectrum management in ways that the committee hopes will be useful to those setting future spectrum policy.--Publisher's description.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction: Trends and Forces Reshaping the Wireless World""; ""2 Key Technology Considerations""; ""3 Policy Options""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A: Biographies of Committee Members and Staff""; ""Appendix B: Speakers at Meetings""; ""Appendix C: Statement of Task""

Notes:

"Committee on Wireless Technology Prospects and Policy Options, Computer Science and Telechommunications Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613019202

9780309209656

030920965X

9781283019200

1283019205

9780309163996

0309163994

OCLC:

711219332