Improved impulsiveness correction factor for controlling electromagnetic interference in dynamic spectrum access applications

Initiatives to open certain frequency bands for dynamic spectrum access (DSA) are ongoing. Examples are the wireless access policy for electronic communications services and white spaces coalition. A key issue in DSA is how to measure occupancy and interference in an open frequency band to decide whether or not it can be used for a certain service. Such measurement must be easy to perform and provide a result that can be used as decision metric. An earlier proposal, based on a so-called impulsiveness correction factor, with this purpose has been shown to work properly if the interference is dominated by a single pulsed signal. In this study, the former approach is extended to the case in which the interference signal consists of a multiple of interference signals. This extension is shown as a closed expression involving only parameters that can be determined from an interference measurement.