White Space Communication: Advances, Developments and Engineering Challenges

ISBN-13: 9783319087467 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 295 str.

Amit Kumar Mishra; David L. Johnson

Opis

This monograph presents the major developments towards the implementation of whitespace radio. Whitespace communication is a new standard for digital communication technology which based on the existing analog TV bands. The standards have been released introducing cognitive communication. Since the introduction of the standards, this has gathered a lot of research and development efforts. The main reason for the popularity of Whitespace technologies are two fold. First of all it can support much wider cells and hence can be used in sparsely populated areas. Secondly, it leverages well upon the two major fields of current communication research, viz. cognitive radio and software defined radio. Whitespace is deemed to be a technology of choice for sparsely populated developing countries. In this aspect it is expected to be a solution for Africa In that manner, the rural area treatment of the subject in the book makes it very practical oriented.

Spis treści

Engineering review of the whitespace radio standards.- Whitespace radio: Lifting the digital divide from Africa.- Measurements of TV bands in Southern Africa.- Channel sounding in TV bands: methodologies and results.- White RHINO: A software defined radio hardware development board to support whitespace communication.- Whitespace measurements round the world by Google.

Blurb

This monograph presents a collection of major developments leading toward the implementation of white space technology - an emerging wireless standard for using wireless spectrum in locations where it is unused by licensed users. Some of the key research areas in the field are covered. These include emerging standards, technical insights from early pilots and simulations, software defined radio platforms, geo-location spectrum databases and current white space spectrum usage in India and South Africa.