Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/PIMRCW.2010.5670401
