TY - GEN
T1 - Resource sharing among mmWave cellular service providers in a vertically differentiated duopoly
AU - Fund, Fraida
AU - Shahsavari, Shahram
AU - Panwar, Shivendra S.
AU - Erkip, Elza
AU - Rangan, Sundeep
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1547332, 1302336, and the GRFP, by the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT), and by NYU WIRELESS.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/7/28
Y1 - 2017/7/28
N2 - With the increasing interest in the use of millimeter wave bands for 5G cellular systems comes renewed interest in resource sharing. Properties of millimeter wave bands such as massive bandwidth, highly directional antennas, high penetration loss, and susceptibility to shadowing, suggest technical advantages to spectrum and infrastructure sharing in millimeter wave cellular networks. However, technical advantages do not necessarily translate to increased profit for service providers, or increased consumer surplus. In this paper, detailed network simulations are used to better understand the economic implications of resource sharing in a vertically differentiated duopoly market for cellular service. The results suggest that resource sharing is less often profitable for millimeter wave service providers compared to microwave cellular service providers, and does not necessarily increase consumer surplus.
AB - With the increasing interest in the use of millimeter wave bands for 5G cellular systems comes renewed interest in resource sharing. Properties of millimeter wave bands such as massive bandwidth, highly directional antennas, high penetration loss, and susceptibility to shadowing, suggest technical advantages to spectrum and infrastructure sharing in millimeter wave cellular networks. However, technical advantages do not necessarily translate to increased profit for service providers, or increased consumer surplus. In this paper, detailed network simulations are used to better understand the economic implications of resource sharing in a vertically differentiated duopoly market for cellular service. The results suggest that resource sharing is less often profitable for millimeter wave service providers compared to microwave cellular service providers, and does not necessarily increase consumer surplus.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICC.2017.7997287
DO - 10.1109/ICC.2017.7997287
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85028352068
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
BT - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2017
A2 - Debbah, Merouane
A2 - Gesbert, David
A2 - Mellouk, Abdelhamid
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2017
Y2 - 21 May 2017 through 25 May 2017
ER -