White Space Communication: Advances, Developments and Engineering Challenges

✍ Scribed by Amit Kumar Mishra, David Lloyd Johnson (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 300
• Series: Signals and Communication Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This monograph presents a collection of major developments leading toward the implementation of white space technology - an emerging wireless standard for using wireless spectrum in locations where it is unused by licensed users. Some of the key research areas in the field are covered. These include emerging standards, technical insights from early pilots and simulations, software defined radio platforms, geo-location spectrum databases and current white space spectrum usage in India and South Africa.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Engineering Review of the IEEE 802.22 Standard on Cognitive Radio....Pages 1-31
A Review of Hardware Platforms for Whitespace Communication....Pages 33-48
A Study on White and Gray Spaces in India....Pages 49-73
The Television White Space Opportunity in Southern Africa: From Field Measurements to Quantifying White Spaces....Pages 75-116
Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Networks....Pages 117-151
Geo-location White Space Spectrum Databases: Review of Models and Design of a Dynamic Spectrum Access Coexistence Planner and Manager....Pages 153-194
White RHINO—A New SDR Platform for Whitespace Communication....Pages 195-219
TV White Space Channel Estimation and Equalisation: Challenges and Solutions....Pages 221-247
VillageLink: A Channel Allocation Technique for Wide-Area White Space Networks....Pages 249-280
A Non-cooperative TV White Space Broadband Market Model for Rural Entrepreneurs....Pages 281-295

✦ Subjects

Communications Engineering, Networks; Information Storage and Retrieval; R & D/Technology Policy