Public mobile radio spectrum has become a scarce resource while wide spectral ranges are only rarely used. Here, a new strategy called spectrum pooling is considered. It aims at enabling public access to these spectral ranges without sacrificing the transmission quality of the actual license owners. Unfortunately, using OFDM modulation in a spectrum pooling system has some drawbacks. There is an interaction between the licensed system and the OFDM based rental system due to the non-orthogonality of their respective transmit signals. In this paper, this interaction is described mathematically providing a quantitative evaluation of the mutual interference that leads to an SNR loss in both systems.
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