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Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

Spectrum Occupancy Measurement of Cellular Spectrum and Smart Network Sharing in Pakistan

Author 1: Aftab Ahmed Mirani
Author 2: Sajjad Ali Memon
Author 3: Saqib Hussain
Author 4: Muhammad Aamir Panhwar
Author 5: Syed Rizwan Ali Shah

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI) : 10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110328

Article Published in International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 11 Issue 3, 2020.

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Abstract: In wireless communication, the radio spectrum is a very rare and precious resource that has currently become a major problem to efficiently exploit the underutilized band of the static allocated licensed band. Recently, the cognitive radio (CR) has emerged as a promising technology to overcome the spectrum crisis, in which, the licensed band can be utilized by the unlicensed user until and unless it does not affect the transmission of the licensed band. In this paper, the spectrum occupancy of three bands i.e. GSM 900, 1800 and 2100 bands have been measured through spectrum analyzer in the indoor and outdoor environment. The measured results of all the three bands have been calculated through MATLAB against the power spectral density versus frequency plots. Results have shown that the majority of the licensed band is underutilized. Therefore, the CR can play a pivotal role to efficiently utilize the unused spectrum and to overcome the cellular wireless spectrum crisis in Pakistan. The second part of this paper deals with the emerging concept of network sharing among mobile operators and its impacts on cost. Network sharing become the standard among mobile operators worldwide and so in Pakistan. Capital (CAPEX) as well as operational (OPEX) expenditure and rapid advancement in technology encouraged all operators to go for sharing business models. In Pakistan, all four mobile operators Jazz, Telenor, Zong, and Ufone are actively adopting this model to maintain EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization). Mainly there are two types of network sharing, Passive infrastructure sharing, and active resource sharing. Passive network sharing is widely used in Pakistan among operators.

Keywords: Cognitive radio; spectrum occupancy; cellular networks; spectrum analyzer; mobile network operators; sharing models; passive infrastructure sharing

Aftab Ahmed Mirani, Sajjad Ali Memon, Saqib Hussain, Muhammad Aamir Panhwar and Syed Rizwan Ali Shah, “Spectrum Occupancy Measurement of Cellular Spectrum and Smart Network Sharing in Pakistan” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 11(3), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110328

@article{Mirani2020,
title = {Spectrum Occupancy Measurement of Cellular Spectrum and Smart Network Sharing in Pakistan},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110328},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110328},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {11},
number = {3},
author = {Aftab Ahmed Mirani and Sajjad Ali Memon and Saqib Hussain and Muhammad Aamir Panhwar and Syed Rizwan Ali Shah}
}


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