Sharing Under Licensed Shared Access In A Lte Real Test Network At 2.3-2.4 Ghz

This paper presents the world's first regulatory pilot on Licensed Shared Access (LSA) in the 2.3-2.4 GHz band, enacted in Italy to delve deeper on the role that spectrum sharing has for efficient use of spectrum. This contribution gives a high-level description of the pilot testbed architecture, the sharing framework and the sharing rules currently defined within the LSA pilot to protect the incumbent users in Italy. Sharing conditions are investigated through measurements and simulations in femtocells and microcells environments which are expected to represent the optimal use case for spectrum sharing towards high capacity mobile broadband.