Open Spectrum: A Path to Ubiquitous Connectivity

Abstract

Just as open standards and open software rocked the networking and computing industry, open spectrum is poised to be a disruptive force in the use of radio spectrum for communications. At the same time, open spectrum will be a major element that helps continue the Internet’s march to integrate and facilitate all electronic communications with open standards and commodity hardware.

Index Terms

• General and reference

  • Document types

    • Computing standards, RFCs and guidelines

• Networks

  • Network protocols

    • Transport protocols

  • Network types

    • Mobile networks

    • Public Internet

    • Wireless access networks