UHF white space in Europe - A quantitative study into the potential of the 470-790 MHz band

2011 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, DySPAN 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-9

  Van De Beek, Jaap ^a   Riihijärvi, Janne ^b   Achtzehn, Andreas ^b   Mähönen, Petri ^b  

^a Radio Transmission Technologies Research   (Sweden)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL TV; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; GEOGRAPHIC AREAS; IRREGULAR TERRAIN; ITU-R MODEL; PROPAGATION MODELS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SYSTEM MODELS; TV BROADCASTING; TV CHANNELS; UHF BAND; WHITE SPACE;

DIGITAL TELEVISION; SPECTROSCOPY;

TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

EID: 79960710876     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DYSPAN.2011.5936207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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