Some Initial Results and Observations from a Series of Trials within the Ofcom TV White Spaces Pilot

Paper Info

Title
Some Initial Results and Observations from a Series of Trials within the Ofcom TV White Spaces Pilot

Abstract
TV White Spaces (TVWS) technology allows wireless devices to opportunistically use locally-available TV channels enabled by a geolocation database. The UK regulator Ofcom has initiated a pilot of TVWS technology in the UK. This paper concerns a large- scale series of trials under that pilot. The purposes are to test 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 space devices, among others. An additional key purpose is to perform research investigations such as on aggregation of TVWS resources with conventional resources and also aggregation solely within TVWS, secondary coexistence issues and means to mitigate such issues, and primary coexistence issues under challenging deployment geometries, among others. This paper provides an update on the trials, giving an overview of their objectives and characteristics, some aspects that have been covered, and some early results and observations.

Year	DOI	Venue
2015	10.1109/VTCSpring.2015.7146093	Vehicular Technology Conference
Keywords	Field	DocType
television,wireless channels,Ofcom TV white spaces pilot,TV channels,UK regulator Ofcom,geolocation database,white space device,white space technology,wireless devices	White spaces,Wireless,Software deployment,Telecommunications,Computer science,Geolocation,Computer network,Communication channel,Interference (wave propagation),Channel availability	Conference
ISSN	Citations	PageRank
2577-2465	6	1.10
References	Authors
2	39

Authors (39 rows)

Cited by (6 rows)

References (2 rows)

Name	Order	Citations	PageRank
Oliver Holland	1	182	16.34
Shuyu Ping	2	68	7.83
Nishanth Sastry	3	32	10.00
Pravir Chawdhry	4	41	5.79
Jean-Marc Chareau	5	38	5.38
James Bishop	6	21	1.89
Hong Xing	7	6	1.43
Suleyman Taskafa	8	6	1.10
Adnan Aijaz	9	6	1.77
Michele Bavaro	10	6	1.10
Philippe Viaud	11	6	1.10
Tiziano Pinato	12	6	1.10
Emanuele Angiuli	13	7	2.82
Mohammad Reza Akhavan	14	33	3.16
Julie A. McCann	15	6	1.10
Yue Gao	16	558	52.83
Zhijin Qin	17	44	2.26
Qianyun Zhang	18	6	2.11
Raymond Knopp	19	725	90.42
Florian Kaltenberger	20	214	33.00
Dominique Nussbaum	21	40	5.94
Rogerio Dionisio	22	6	1.10
José Carlos Ribeiro	23	21	6.73
Paulo Marques	24	17	5.75
Juhani Hallio	25	37	5.33
Mikko Jakobsson	26	6	1.10
Jani Auranen	27	29	3.95
Reijo Ekman	28	78	8.77
Heikki Kokkinen	29	55	12.90
Jarkko Paavola	30	111	17.19
Arto Kivinen	31	52	8.83
Tomaz Solc	32	6	2.11
Mihael Mohorcic	33	235	28.66
Ha Nguyen Tran	34	235	30.82
Kentaro Ishizu	35	223	48.06
Takeshi Matsumura	36	6	1.10
Kazuo Ibuka	37	6	1.43
Hiroshi Harada	38	157	36.67
Keiichi Mizutani	39	6	1.77