Abstract
This paper proposes a two stage algorithm to address spectrum sharing between two Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) operators. The two stage algorithm uses both genetic algorithm and load balancing techniques. The first stage uses genetic algorithm as a solution to optimize the allocation when the correlation of traffic is low. The second stage uses load balancing scheme in the highly correlated traffic region. The simulation result shows that significant spectrum sharing gains up to 26 percent and 20 percent respectively, can be obtained on both networks using the proposed algorithm.