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Smart Contracts for Decentralized Dynamic Spectrum Marketplaces

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We propose an approach for automated, potentially very fine-grain, spectrum transactions and marketplaces in order to flexibly and dynamically acquire spectrum rights in order to enable new applications and services also permitting the support of, or even guarantee, Quality-of-Service for ephemeral deployments. We describe both (multiple, by region or band) centralized marketplaces, based on traditional Information Technologies, and decentralized approaches, based on blockchains and smart contracts through either permissioneless or permissioned Distributed Ledger Technologies.

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Acknowledgements

This brief exposition is based on ideas presented during the First BEST NEST Invitational Workshop on New Paradigms in Intelligent Spectrum Management and Regulation: Future Directions, Technologies [6]. The author thanks the organizers for the invitation and the opportunity to re-think and present the ideas. The author would also like to thank his PhD student and smart contract expert Iakovos Pittaras for the smart contract coding and related discussions.

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  1. Mobile Multimedia Laboratory, Department of Informatics, School of Information Sciences and Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece

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Polyzos, G.C. Smart Contracts for Decentralized Dynamic Spectrum Marketplaces. Int J Wireless Inf Networks 29, 275–280 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-022-00573-8

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