Worldwide trends in regulation of secondary access to white spaces using cognitive radio

IEEE Wireless Communications

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 32-40

  Nekovee, Maziar ^a   Irnich, Tim ^b   Karlsson, Jörgen ^b  

^a BT Group   (United Kingdom)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPERATION PARAMETERS; RADIO SPECTRA; STATE OF THE ART; TV BAND; TV WHITE SPACES; UNITED KINGDOM; WHITE SPACE;

COGNITIVE RADIO;

RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 84865465405     PISSN: 15361284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2012.6272421     Document Type: Article

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