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Michael R. Souryal, Thao T. Nguyen, Nickolas J. LaSorte
Abstract
The current standardized algorithm for U.S. federal incumbent protection in the 3.5 GHz band is sub-optimum in that it moves more commercial transmissions out of the protected channel than necessary, in most cases. This paper proposes a more efficient algorithm that packs transmissions in the allowed interference budget jointly across incumbent receiver azimuths rather than independently, resulting in 7% to 40% fewer commercial transmissions affected.
Proceedings Title
IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks
Souryal, M.
, Nguyen, T.
and LaSorte, N.
(2018),
3.5 GHz Federal Incumbent Protection Algorithms, IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, Seoul, KR, [online], https://doi.org/10.1109/DySPAN.2018.8610480, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=926121
(Accessed October 9, 2025)