Horizon Prize – Collaborative Spectrum Sharing

The Horizon Prize for collaborative spectrum sharing is a €500 000 challenge prize. It will be awarded to an innovative and disruptive approach which will enable a significant increase in spectrum sharing and re-use, beyond the currently applicable spectrum sharing methods and centralised techniques. The winning solution should be a significant step forward from current technologies and solutions in terms of shared spectrum usage metrics and will have to prove its economic viability. The feasibility of the approach will have to be demonstrated through clear experimental results.

OBJECTIVES

The objectives are:

•           To tackle the expected capacity crunch of wireless networks faced with booming traffic and usages;

•           To provide innovative yet implementable solutions enabling a significant efficiency improvement in the usage of scarce spectrum resources;

•           To reward excellence in d