White Space Communication Advances, Developments and Engineering Challenges [Hardcover]

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.

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.

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.

Includes both a theoretical and practical discussion of the technology

Discusses systems required to implement white space communication

Describes the application of white space communication for sparsely populated areas

Provides an analysis of white space spectrum availability in both India and South Africa

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