Director; Marcus Spectrum Solutions (formerly with the FCC)
Presentation Title
The Technology and Politics of Increasing Intensity of Spectrum Use
Abstract
While spectrum efficiency has improved significantly in recent years, the demand for spectrum may be growing faster than our ability to meet it with traditional technologies and policies. Wireless communications is a very highly regulated sector of our economy and there are more regulatory barriers to the introduction of new technologies than in other sectors. This talk will review promising new technologies, their potential, regulatory issues they will raise, and suggest how the technical and business communities can work with regulators to facilitate the introduction of new technologies.
Biography
Michael J. Marcus is a native of Boston, Massachusetts. He received S.B. and Sc.D. degrees in electrical engineering from MIT while participating in a co-op program with Bell Labs. He served in the US Air Force managing research projects relating to underground nuclear test detection and then joined the Institute for Defense Analyses where he studied electronic warfare issues. In 1979 he joined the Federal Communications Commission where he held a variety of positions relating to technical policy and radio monitoring.
He was responsible for the 1985 spread spectrum decision that established the unlicensed bands for spread spectrum, setting the stage for both CDMA cellular and Wi-Fi technologies.
He later directed the effort to make millimeterwave spectrum available for civil use. He played a key role in the FCC's Spectrum Policy Task Force before retiring in March 2004. He now lives in Paris, France, where he is Director of Marcus Spectrum Solutions, a consulting firm in radio technology and spectrum policy. He is an IEEE Fellow.
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