NIST Highlights Its Role in Opening 3.5 GHz Band
The National Institute of Standards and Technology said the agency played a role behind the scenes allowing for sharing of Navy spectrum in the 3.5 GHz communications broadband radio service band. “The development of standards, test procedures and certification tools…
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... will allow service providers and other potential users to prove that they can operate in the 3.5 GHz Band under FCC regulations and assure the Navy that the band can be successfully shared without RF interference,” it blogged Thursday. "The NIST model simulates 45,000 LTE smaller-size networks (known as small cells) using the 3.5 GHz Band in the northeastern United States. In response to a simulated need for the band by an offshore Navy vessel, the model calculates which small cells must be shut down and which can continue transmitting. These simulations, along with others modeling wireless networks in other U.S. coastal regions, will allow the FCC to test and evaluate how effectively a commercial LTE provider can share the band with the Navy.”