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• Understanding and furthering emerging technologies
  These studies assess new technologies such as software defined radio, smart antennas, cognitive radio, UWB and mesh networks.
• Understanding the state and use of the spectrum
  These studies discuss technologies and systems that might be used to better monitor the use of the spectrum and provide some results of measurements of noise floor levels and usage of licence-exempt spectrum.
• Aiding Spectrum Liberalisation
  These studies aid our spectrum liberalisation agenda and include work on spectrum usage rights, EMC levels, the generic modelling tool and spectrum fragmentation issues.
• Enhancing Spectrum Efficiency
  These studies assess how spectrum could be used more efficiently across a range of areas including radars, video codecs, frequencies above 60GHz, better sharing, better backhaul and new fixed link techniques.
• Better managing licence-exempt usage
  These studies consider a range of aspects about licence exemption including the economic value of usage, specific bands for certain applications, exemption at frequencies above 60GHz and politeness protocols
• Propagation Studies
  These studies further knowledge of propagation in many areas including fixed links measurements, indoor to outdoor propagation and propagation between terminals of low height.
• Sector Studies
  These studies investigate how various sectors of society will evolve over the next 10 to 20 years and identify how the requirements for communications within those sectors will change.
• Archive
  This includes work that commenced before the formation of Ofcom

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