Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing and White Space Access: The Practical Reality

  • 13h 36m
  • Arturas Medeisis, Hanna Bogucka, Oliver Holland
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2015

Details the paradigms of opportunistic spectrum sharing and white space access as effective means to satisfy increasing demand for high-speed wireless communication and for novel wireless communication applications This book addresses opportunistic spectrum sharing and white space access, being particularly mindful of practical considerations and solutions. In Part I, spectrum sharing implementation issues are considered in terms of hardware platforms and software architectures for realization of flexible and spectrally agile transceivers. Part II addresses practical mechanisms supporting spectrum sharing, including spectrum sensing for opportunistic spectrum access, machine learning and decision making capabilities, aggregation of spectrum opportunities, and spectrally-agile radio waveforms. Part III presents the ongoing work on policy and regulation for efficient and reliable spectrum sharing, including major recent steps forward in TV White Space (TVWS) regulation and associated geolocation database approaches, policy management aspects, and novel licensing schemes supporting spectrum sharing. In Part IV, business and economic aspects of spectrum sharing are considered, including spectrum value modeling, discussion of issues around disruptive innovation that are pertinent to opportunistic spectrum sharing and white space access, and business benefits assessment of the novel spectrum sharing regulatory proposal Licensed Shared Access. Part V discusses deployments of opportunistic spectrum sharing and white space access solutions in practice, including work on TVWS system implementations, standardization activities, and development and testing of systems according to the standards.

  • Discusses aspects of pioneering standards such as the IEEE 802.22 Wi-Far standard, the IEEE 802.1 1af White-Fi standard, the IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks Standards Committee standards, and the ETSI Reconfiguration Radio Systems standards
  • Investigates regulatory and regulatory-linked solutions assisting opportunistic spectrum sharing and white space access, including geo-location database approaches and licensing enhancements
  • Covers the pricing and value of spectrum, the economic effects and potentials of such technologies, and provides detailed business assessments of some particularly innovative regulatory proposals

The flexible and efficient use of radio frequencies is necessary to cater for the increasing data traffic demand worldwide. This book addresses this necessity through its extensive coverage of opportunistic spectrum sharing and white space access solutions. Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing and White Space Access: The Practical Reality is a great resource for telecommunication engineers, researchers, and students .

About the Editors

Dr. Oliver Holland is Research Fellow at the Centre for Telecommunications Research at King's College London, United Kingdom.

Prof. Hanna Bogucka is Professor at the Chair of Wireless Communications at Poznan University of Technology, Poland.

Dr. Arturas Medeisis is Associate Professor and Chair of the Telecommunications Engineering Department at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania.

In this Book

  • The Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) Family of Low-Cost SDRs
  • On the GNU Radio Ecosystem
  • Wireless Open-Access Research Platform (WARP) for Flexible Radio
  • A Dynamically Reconfigurable Software Radio Framework: Iris
  • OpenAirInterface and ExpressMIMO2 for Spectrally Agile Communication
  • Coral Cognitive Wifi Networking System: Case Studies of Rural Applications in India
  • Cooperative Sensing of Spectrum Opportunities
  • A Machine-Learning Approach Based on Bio-Inspired Intelligence
  • Spectrally Agile Waveforms
  • Aggregation of Spectrum Opportunities
  • Policies for Efficient Spectrum Sharing
  • International Regulatory Framework for Spectrum and Spectrum Sharing
  • Regulations for Spectrum Sharing in the USA
  • UK Framework for Access to TV White Spaces
  • Spectrum Sharing Using Geo-Location Databases
  • Novel Licensing Schemes
  • Economic and Game Theoretic Models for Spectrum Sharing
  • Business Benefits of Licensed Shared Access (LSA) for Key Stakeholders
  • Initial Standardization of Disruptive Innovations in Radiocommunication Technology in Consortia
  • Spectrum As A Platform: A Critical Assessment of the Value Promise of Spectrum Sharing Solutions
  • TV White Spaces with Geo-Location Database Access: Practical Considerations and Trials in Europe
  • Developments and Practical Field Trials of Tv White Space Technologies
  • Cognitive Wireless Regional Area Network Standard—Enabling Cost-Effective Wireless Access, Middle-Mile Solution and Backhaul Using Spectrum Sharing and Opportunistic Spectrum Access
  • ETSI Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing Technology for (TV) White Spaces
  • The IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks Standards Committee (Dyspan-SC) and IEEE 1900 Working Groups
  • Spectrum to Unlash Machine-to-Machine Uptake
  • Conclusions and Future Work
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