A Spectrum Sensing Prototype for TV White Space in China

TV white space (TVWS) has been considered a favorable spectrum for sharing with other spectrum deficient technologies. There are three popular TV standards in China: the Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast (DTMB), China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB) and PAL-D/K (Phase Alternating Line -D/K). In this paper we present a prototype platform for experimental spectrum sensing, which is developed in-house to test TVWS spectrum sharing for all the three popular TV standards. We discuss the details on the prototype architecture, the spectrum sensing algorithms and the testing setup in this paper. The performance results show that the developed prototype platform can detect the signals from all the three TV standards robustly and efficiently.