Title :
Two days of spectrum use in Europe
Author :
Palaios, Alexandros ; Riihijärvi, Janne ; Mähönen, Petri ; Atanasovski, Vladimir ; Gavrilovska, Liljana ; Van Wesemae, Peter ; Dejonghe, Antoine ; Scheele, Peter
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Networked Syst., RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, Germany
Abstract :
In this paper we report on spectrum use measurements carried out synchronously over the period of 48+ hours in seven European cities. Special care has been placed on harmonizing the measurement settings and equipment so as to obtain as comparable data as possible. We describe in detail the measurement setup, including the coordinated preparation activities carried out across the different measurement sites. We present preliminary analysis of the obtained data set, and particularly highlight similarities and differences in spectrum use between selected measurement locations. We plan to release later the full data set for research community for the further research.
Keywords :
radiofrequency measurement; Europe; European cities; measurement locations; measurement setup; spectrum use measurements; Antenna measurements; Cities and towns; Frequency measurement; Hardware; Loss measurement; Sensitivity; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CROWNCOM), 2012 7th International ICST Conference on
Conference_Location :
Stockholm
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2976-7
Electronic_ISBN :
2166-5370