Overview of TV White Spaces: Current regulations, standards and coexistence between secondary users

Author

Baykas, Tuncer ; Wang, Junyi ; Rahman, M. Azizur ; Tran, Ha Nguyen ; Song, Chunyi ; Filin, Stanislav ; Alemseged, Yohannes ; Sun, Chen ; Villardi, Gabriel Porto ; Sum, Chin-Sean ; Lan, Zhou ; Harada, Hiroshi

Author_Institution

New Generation Wireless Commun. Res. Center, Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol. (NICT), Yokosuka, Japan

fYear

2010

Firstpage

38

Lastpage

43

Abstract

TV White Spaces (TVWS) refer to segments of the TV spectrum not used by licensed users in a given location. In recent years, regulation agencies throughout the world consider the possibility to open TVWS to unlicensed use, which is followed by standardization activities to realize it. One of the important aspects of unlicensed operation in TVWS is coexistence between heterogenous networks. This paper provides an overview of current regulations, standardization activities related to TVWS, while the main focus is IEEE P802.19.1 standardization project to enable coexistence in TVWS.

Keywords

cognitive radio; radio spectrum management; telecommunication standards; television; IEEE P802.19.1 standardization project; TV spectrum; TV white spaces; heterogenous networks; licensed users; secondary users; unlicensed operation; Databases; FCC; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Sensors; TV; White spaces; Coexistence; Cognitive Radio; IEEE 802.19.1; TVWS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications Workshops (PIMRC Workshops), 2010 IEEE 21st International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Instanbul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9117-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRCW.2010.5670401

Filename

5670401