Research on Economic Evaluation Methodology for Radio Spectrum Resource Management

The radio spectrum is a key and rare resource, and economic mechanisms have been begin to play an important role in radio spectrum resource management in China., the economic evaluation on radio spectrum applicants will provide an important reference for radio spectrum managers who make decisions based on economic mechanisms. On the basis of the analysis on the economic value of the radio spectrum resource, the economic evaluation indexes and their normalized methods are proposed, moreover, the weights for the economic evaluation indexes are computed based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Finally, the application examples are given, which explain how to make use of the methodology to evaluate the spectrum applicants and analyze the economic evaluation results from the different judge matrixes.