Developing a standard for TV white space coexistence: Technical challenges and solution approaches

IEEE Wireless Communications

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 10-22

  Baykas, Tuncer ^a   Kasslin, Mika ^b   Cummings, Mark ^c   Kang, Hyunduk ^d   Kwak, Joe ^e   Paine, Richard ^f   Reznik, Alex ^e   Saeed, Rashid ^g   Shellhammer, Stephen J ^h  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^e INTERDIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

^f SELF ^*  (United States)

^g Sudan University for Science and Technology   (Sudan)

^h QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE PROBLEM; END USERS; IEEE 802; REGULATORY AGENCIES; REGULATORY STATUS; SOLUTION APPROACH; SPECTRUM EFFICIENCY; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; TV CHANNELS; TV WHITE SPACES; WIRELESS DEVICES;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 84858267848     PISSN: 15361284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2012.6155872     Document Type: Article

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