To white space or not to White Space: That is the trial within the Ofcom TV White Spaces pilot

2015 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, DySPAN 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 11-22

  Holland, Oliver ^a   Ping, Shuyu ^a   Aijaz, Adnan ^a   Chareau, Jean Marc ^b   Chawdhry, Pravir ^b   Gao, Yue ^c   Qin, Zhijin ^c   Kokkinen, Heikki ^d  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Fairspectrum Oy Itäinen Pitkäkatu   (Finland)

Author keywords

field trials; geolocation databases; spectrum aggregation; spectrum sharing; TV white space

Indexed keywords

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

FIELD TRIAL; GEO-LOCATION DATABASE; SPECTRUM AGGREGATION; SPECTRUM SHARING; TV WHITE SPACES;

SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84960333773     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DySPAN.2015.7343846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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