Spectrum Occupancy Measurements: A Survey and Use of Interference Maps

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 2386-2414

  Höyhtyä, Marko ^a   Mämmelä, Aarne ^a   Eskola, Marina ^a   Matinmikko, Marja ^b   Kalliovaara, Juha ^d   Ojaniemi, Jaakko ^e   Suutala, Jaakko ^c   Ekman, Reijo ^f   Bacchus, Roger ^g   Roberson, Dennis ^g  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^e AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^f TURKU UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

^g ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognition; Dynamic spectrum access; spectrum databases; spectrum management

Indexed keywords

SURVEYS;

COGNITION; DYNAMIC SPECTRUM ACCESS; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM DESIGN; SPECIFIC FREQUENCIES; SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT; SPECTRUM OCCUPANCY MEASUREMENTS;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84999791789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2016.2559525     Document Type: Review

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