Every once in a while, one comes across something so trivial yet so flattering. I was fortunate enough to attend the International Telecommunications Society 18th Biennial Conference in Tokyo last week. I attended the panel on radio spectrum on the last day of the conference. Two of the four papers presented on the spectrum panel were derived in some way from research I published in 2009.
The first paper was the History and Conceptual Development of Spectrum Commons in the USA by Nattawut Ard-Paru of the Chalmers University of Technology. The historical treatment of her paper was taken from taken from Coase (1959), Hazlett (1998) and my Unlicensed to Kill: A brief history of the FCC’s Part 15 Rules. Not bad company to be in!
The fourth paper on the panel was Exclusive Spectrum Rights vs. Spectrum Commons by Dr. Kiyotaka Yuguchi of Sagami Women’s University. Dr. Yuguchi reviews some of the recent literature in an attempt to synthesize commons and exclusive rights approaches. He then develops certain extensions to my 2009 spectrum pricing model in my paper Next Generation Spectrum Regulation for Europe: Price-Guided Radio Policy. Dr. Yuguchi looks at the marginal rate of substitution for technology for spectrum. This is admittedly only implicit in my interference function. He makes it explicit. However, this is what I had hoped people would do with the basic model – add complications and refinements which I did not have the resources to do in the original paper.
Insight: I have been working in radio communications for nearly a decade. It was so encouraging for me to see that my recent work is having such an important impact on the direction of current research. If you work hard enough and long enough, you every once in a while you earn bragging rights.
Tags: ITS, RCS, spectrum policy