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SUMMARY:Smart Spectrum Sharing (S3): Toolboxes to Support Efficient Utilis
 ation of the National Spectrum Resources
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Luzango Mfupe (CSIR)\nThe demand by consumers for ac
 cess to ubiquitous and affordable  communication services including the ap
 plications of the fourth industrial revolution\, with the need to connect 
 everything to the internet (machine-to-machine\, and human-to-machine comm
 unications) is exponentially growing in both speed and volume. Radio frequ
 ency (RF) spectrum is a finite resource of the national ICT infrastructure
  necessary for enabling exchange of information. In most developing countr
 ies\, wireless communication technologies remain the cost-effective and pr
 eferred solution for providing broadband communication networks due to the
  lack of\, or limited coverage of fixed communication infrastructures such
  as fiber optic cables which is attributable to the high investment costs.
  However\, the deployment of wireless network infrastructure depends on th
 e availability of RF spectrum. As such\, the demand for access to RF spect
 rum continues to increase and therefore necessitates for an efficient util
 isation of it. Unfortunately\, the dominant  RF spectrum access techniques
  and management regimes are inefficient since they are based on the tradit
 ional command-and-control approaches\, which are static in nature. The use
  of such (outdated) regimes has resulted into an “artificial” scarcity
  of RF spectrum. This artificially created scarcity leads to two main prob
 lems: i) limited or inadequate access to RF spectrum\, and ii) high cost o
 f network deployment which translates to high cost of data. Both these pro
 blems have a negative impact towards deploying wireless broadband networks
  for provisioning of universal broadband and communications infrastructure
 s to the needy communities.   The CSIR Smart Spectrum Sharing (S3) platfor
 m is meant to make available efficient RF spectrum utilisation toolboxes t
 o stakeholders in the telecommunication sector value chain including the n
 ational regulators\, network operators and policy-makers to support the ef
 forts to reduce the cost of communications and easy the barrier of entry i
 n the telecommunication sector.\n\nhttps://events.chpc.ac.za/event/98/cont
 ributions/1537/
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