A series of trials in the UK as part of the Ofcom TV white spaces pilot

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Holland, Oliver
Sastry, Nishanth
Ping, Shuyu
Knopp, Raymond
Kaltenberger, Florian
Nussbaum, Dominique
Hallio, Juhani
Jakobsson, Mikko
Auranen, Jani
Ekman, Reijo
Paavola, Jarkko
Kivinen, Arto
Tran, Ha-Nguyen
Ishizu, Kentaro
Harada, Hiroshi
Chawdhry, Pravir
Chareau, Jean-Marc
Bishop, James
Bavaro, Michele
Anguili, Emanuele
Gao, Yue
Dionísio, Rogério Pais
Marques, Paulo
Kokkinen, Heikki
Luukkonen, Olli

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

HOLLAND, Olivier [et al. ] (2014) - A series of trials in the UK as part of the Ofcom TV white spaces pilot. In International Workshop on Cognitive Cellular System, 1, Rhine River, 2-4 September. [S.l] : IEEE. p. 1-5

978-1-4799-4139-1

10.1109/CCS.2014.6933806

A series of trials in the UK as part of the Ofcom TV white spaces pilot

TV white spaces
Geolocation databases
Field trials
Experimentation

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2014

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TV White Spaces technology is a means of allowing wireless devices to opportunistically use locally-available TV channels (TV White Spaces), enabled by a geolocation database. The geolocation database informs the device of which channels can be used at a given location, and in the UK/EU case, which transmission powers (EIRPs) can be used on each channel based on the technical characteristics of the device, given an assumed interference limit and protection margin at the edge of the primary service coverage area(s). The UK regulator, Ofcom, has initiated a large-scale Pilot of TV White Spaces technology and devices. The ICT-ACROPOLIS Network of Excellence, teaming up with the ICT-SOLDER project and others, is running an extensive series of trials under this effort. The purpose of these trials is to test a number of aspects of white space technology, including the white space device and geolocation database interactions, the validity of the channel availability/powers calculations by the database and associated interference effects on primary services, and the performances of the white spaces devices, among others. An additional key purpose is to undertake a number of research investigations such as into aggregation of TV White Space resources with conventional (licensed/unlicensed) resources, secondary coexistence issues and means to mitigate such issues, and primary coexistence issues under challenging deployment geometries, among others. This paper describes our trials, their intentions and characteristics, objectives, and some early observations.

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