Jan 2004 | Dewayne Hendricks | Towards Open Spectrum: Locating Wireless Technology, Regulation and History
Leading US open spectrum advocate Dewayne Hendricks' keynote presentation to the ABC2 Conference Revolution at the Edge: Broadband Networks and Innovation (Cisco, EMEA Headquarters, Middlesex, England).
"We are undergoing a paradigm shift from the property regimen to the new commons world and beyond (...) in which we may turn the regulatory authority over to the device itself"
Towards Open Spectrum: Locating Wireless Technology, Regulation and History
Leading US Open Spectrum advocate Dewayne Hendricks surveys the Janus face of wireless technologies:
- From the frontier years of wireless as an open innovation commons, to the institutionalization of the regulatory property regime, to the current explosion of un-licensed wireless use with Wi-Fi, and the promise of cognitive radio innovation, Hendricks locates our present crossroads of the wireless revolution and the prospects of an open future for spectrum.
- "We can't afford to lose another 20 years" he concludes, after highlighting the early 1980s phase of spread-spectrum innovation in the United States that signalled the paradigm shift to shared spectrum use beyond the property real estate model, the subsequent prevalence of spectrum politics over spectrum technology, the unintended consequences of un-licensed spectrum access, and the current promise of cognitive radios and shared spectrum use across bands.
- "We are undergoing a paradigm shift from the property regimen to the new commons world and beyond (...) in which we may turn the regulatory authority over to the device itself"
Links
Dewayne Hendricks
“It’s the stuff dreams are made of,” says Dewayne Hendricks, quoting Humphrey Bogart in the Maltese Falcon. The device Dewayne holds is a $60 Made-in-Taiwan board that is already transforming communications connections in Sandoval County, New Mexico. - Source here
- Dewayne Hendricks
- Sandoval County, Wireless Broadband Project | Dewayne Hendricks - Chief consulting engineer for Sandoval County Broadband | 6/23/2006
- April 2006 | danablankenhorn.com | Visions on Net Neutrality: Dewayne Hendricks | "The tools make the rules".
- April 2006 | muniwireless.com | Dewayne Hendricks on Wi-Fi’s potential
- July 2005 | muniwireless.com | Dewayne Hendricks: Looking to Spectrum for a Networking Utopia
- May 2005 | Open Spectrum UK & Cybersalon | Wireless Utopias 05 | National Science Museum, London
- June 25, 2004 | David Isenberg: Innovative Wireless Architectures
- Wizards of OS 3 Conference | Berlin, June 2004 | Linux Journal
- CENIC, One Gigabit or Bust Initiative
- Jan 2002 | Wired Magazine | Broadband Cowboy
- April 1998 | Scientific American (Reproduced with permission) | SPREAD SPECTRUM RADIO | David R. Hughes and Dewayne Hendricks | "As advanced radios are deployed, society must tackle the crucial issue of incorporating (...) incentives within the network infrastructure itself to make the best use of a shared common resource - the radio spectrum".
Some Open Spectrum links
- Open Spectrum FAQ | Jan 2003 | David Weinberger, Jock Gill, Dewayne Hendricks, David P. Reed.
- Why Open Spectrum Matters | Jan 2003 | David Weinberger, Jock Gill, Dewayne Hendricks, David P. Reed: "Open spectrum will do for wireless communications what the Internet has done for networking computers".
- salon.com | The myth of interference: David Weinberger interviews David P. Reed | March 12, 2003
- Open Spectrum Foundation
- Open Spectrum UK
- Open Spectrum: Wikipedia