Study on television white space in Indonesia

Abstract

The growing cellular customer resulting a hungry data traffic occurs around the world including Indonesia. The number of cellular user reaches 264.4 millions in 2015 which passes the total population, i.e. 259,1 millions people. Consequence of these phenomenon is the demand of traffic up to 700 peta byte with Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) being 120%. Based on those data, spectrum scarcity could happen up to 500 MHz in 2020. There has been many techniques to solve the spectrum scarcity, i.e. technical approaches and regulation approaches. The technical approaches includes multiple input multiple output (MIMO), beamforming, relaying, frequency reuse, and high order modulation. The regulation approaches includes cooperative tower, spectrum sharing, and network sharing. There is a possibility to exploit spectrum used by broadcasting media, such as television (TV), using TV White Space. Television White Space (TVWS) takes an advantage the interleaved spectrum to deliver internet connection in specify area. Because of its coverage, TVWS can be expected to increase internet penetration in rural area.