[ACM Press the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference - Barcelona, Spain (2009.08.16-2009.08.21)] Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference on Data communication - SIGCOMM '09 - White space networking with wi-fi like connectivity

✍ Scribed by Bahl, Paramvir; Chandra, Ranveer; Moscibroda, Thomas; Murty, Rohan; Welsh, Matt

• Book ID: 120463017
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 2009
• Weight: 519 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1605585947
• DOI: 10.1145/1592568.1592573

✦ Synopsis

Networking over UHF white spaces is fundamentally different from conventional Wi-Fi along three axes: spatial variation, temporal variation, and fragmentation of the UHF spectrum. Each of these differences gives rise to new challenges for implementing a wireless network in this band. We present the design and implementation of WhiteFi, the first Wi-Fi like system constructed on top of UHF white spaces. WhiteFi incorporates a new adaptive spectrum assignment algorithm to handle spectrum variation and fragmentation, and proposes a low overhead protocol to handle temporal variation. WhiteFi builds on a simple technique, called SIFT, that reduces the time to detect transmissions in variable channel width systems by analyzing raw signals in the time domain. We provide an extensive system evaluation in terms of a prototype implementation and detailed experimental and simulation results.