Tuning the Longley-Rice propagation model for improved TV white space detection

Author

Avez, P. ; Van Wesemael, P. ; Bourdoux, A. ; Chiumento, A. ; Pollin, S. ; Moeyaert, V.

Author_Institution

Fac. Polytech., Univ. de Mons, Mons, Belgium

fYear

2012

fDate

16-16 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The secondary use of the frequency band below 1 GHz is gaining a lot of interest for wireless communications due to the attractive propagation characteristics in this band. Optimal reuse relies partially on the reliable detection of unused channels. We propose to detect unused channels based on prediction with the Longley-Rice channel model of which the parameters are tuned thanks to a limited amount of measurements with a low-cost, low-power sensing device.

Keywords

cognitive radio; radiowave propagation; signal detection; Longley-Rice channel model; Longley-Rice propagation model; improved TV white space detection; low-power sensing device; unused channel detection reliability; wireless communications; Antenna measurements; Attenuation; Databases; Digital video broadcasting; Loss measurement; Predictive models; Sensors; TVWS; channel propagation model; cognitive radio; digital video broadcasting; path loss; spectrum sensing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT), 2012 IEEE 19th Symposium on

Conference_Location

Eindhoven

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2114-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2113-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCVT.2012.6399400

Filename

6399400