OpenPAWS: An open source PAWS and UHF TV White Space database implementation for India

Author

Ghosh, Soumik ; Naik, Gaurang ; Kumar, Animesh ; Karandikar, Abhay

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol. Bombay, Mumbai, India

fYear

2015

fDate

Feb. 27 2015-March 1 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

TV white space (TVWS) geolocation database is being used for the protection of the terrestrial TV broadcast receivers, and the coexistence of secondary devices. To the best of our knowledge, though TV White Space calculations are available, an active online database does not exist for India. In this paper, the development of the first TVWS database for India is detailed and is released for public access. A standardized protocol to access the TVWS database on a readily available hardware platform is implemented. A hardware prototype, which is capable of querying the TVWS database and operating in the TV band without causing harmful interference to the TV receivers in UHF TV bands, is developed. The source code of our implementation has been released under the GNU general public license version 2.0.

Keywords

database management systems; digital television; protocols; telecommunication computing; television broadcasting; GNU general public license version; India; TVWS geolocation database; UHF TV white space database implementation; active online database; hardware prototype; harmful interference; open source PAWS; openPAWS; standardized protocol; terrestrial TV broadcast receivers; Databases; Hardware; Protocols; Servers; TV; White spaces; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (NCC), 2015 Twenty First National Conference on

Conference_Location

Mumbai

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NCC.2015.7084890

Filename

7084890