Cognitive radio on TV bands: A new approach to provide wireless connectivity for rural areas

IEEE Wireless Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 16-22

  Liang, Ying Chang ^a   Hoang, Anh Tuan ^a   Chen, Hsiao Hwa ^b  

^a Institute for Infocomm Research

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; ADAPTIVE TDD (ATDD); COGNITIVE RADIO (CR); COGNITIVE RADIO (CR) TECHNOLOGY; DATA SERVICES; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; INDUSTRIAL COMMUNITIES; NEW APPROACHES; ON TIME; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY-DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (OFDMA); RURAL COMMUNICATIONS; RURAL NETWORKS; SERVICE MODELING; TURN-AROUND TIME (TAT); TV BROADCASTING; VHF/UHF; WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY (WICON); WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

FREQUENCY BANDS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; STANDARDS; TECHNOLOGY; TELEVISION BROADCASTING; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; TURNAROUND TIME; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

RURAL AREAS;

EID: 46149117280     PISSN: 15361284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2008.4547518     Document Type: Article

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