WHO IS WHO
Director
FuturePace Solutions
Michael Whittaker@futurepace.com.au , B Sc. (Physics), Grad. Dip. Electronics, has over 23 years experience in radio spectrum planning, working for the Australian Government beginning 1984, pioneering automated frequency assignment systems and publishing in that field.
Michael led the introduction of flexible spectrum management techniques in Australia in 1994 becoming the principal architect of the form of flexible spectrum licensing which supports either the outsourced or centralised regulatory authorisation of spectrum access for any type of technology and service through compliance with either a fully defined set of explicit transmit rights in relation to all interference mechanisms, or provision of any necessary internal guard space based on those rights.
This is a space-centric approach which can provide equitable spectrum access when dissimilar equipment is operated in adjacent spectrum spaces. It can also create practical rules for authorizing dynamic spectrum access by software reconfigurable devices.
Mr. Whittaker was chairman of a Government sponsored industry consultative forum in 1997 which established the licence conditions for 800 MHz and 1.8 GHz spectrum licences. Michael also later designed the 28/32 GHz and 3.4 GHz spectrum licence conditions and is now a director of FuturePace Solutions designing web-based online transmitter certification and authorization services for outsourced self-management of interference, incorporating automated compliance and coordination checks as well as the integration of real time EMF human exposure management for complex shared sites at which those transmitters operate.
Michael authored a book “Flexible Radio Spectrum Access” in March 2006 which for the first time clearly described the space-centric method as a fully scalable general solution for radio interference management in a flexible usage context.
