M. Barbiroli, C. Carciofi, D. Guiducci, V. Petrini
{"title":"White Spaces potentially available in Italian scenarios based on the geo-location database approach","authors":"M. Barbiroli, C. Carciofi, D. Guiducci, V. Petrini","doi":"10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478165","url":null,"abstract":"In this work spectral resources potentially available for White Space Devices (WSDs) in the TV band is investigated in different Italian scenarios. The adopted methodology is based on the geo-location database approach used either in autonomous operation or in combination with sensing techniques. From simulation and measurement results, it is evident that in Italy the 470-790 MHz band is densely utilized and most of the potentially available WS are located in low populated zones such as mountain or hilly areas. The amount of WS strongly depends on many different parameters such as the criteria adopted to protect the incumbent service or the topology of the considered area. Preliminary results on the possible benefits derived from the combination of geo-location database and sensing techniques are discussed.","PeriodicalId":224818,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132605889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Physical layer authentication using controlled inter symbol interference","authors":"Vireshwar Kumar, J. Park, Jaeweon Kim, Ahsan Aziz","doi":"10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478149","url":null,"abstract":"Spectrum security and enforcement is one of the major challenges that need to be addressed before cognitive radios (CR) can be widely deployed for opportunistic spectrum sharing. One of the mechanisms needed to carry out spectrum enforcement is the authentication or identification of transmitters. We propose a novel scheme for authenticating transmitters at the physical layer called partial response signaling with authentication (PRSA). Our results indicate that PRSA is superior to the prior art in terms of detection performance.","PeriodicalId":224818,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124969066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Tallon, Jacek Kibiłda, T. Forde, L. Dasilva, L. Doyle
{"title":"Receiver-driven handover between independent networks","authors":"J. Tallon, Jacek Kibiłda, T. Forde, L. Dasilva, L. Doyle","doi":"10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478142","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this demonstration is to show handover with continuous service between two independent base-station entities belonging to different operators. The handover occurs without any link layer connection between the base-stations and without prior knowledge of base-station operating frequencies or channelization on the part of the receiver. To achieve this, the system employs a receiver-driven approach to the handover[4].","PeriodicalId":224818,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125104550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is wireless broadband provision to rural communities in TV whitespaces viable? A UK case study and analysis","authors":"S. Kawade, M. Nekovee","doi":"10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478170","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we quantitatively investigate the feasibility of rural broadband provisioning TV whitespaces from the perspective of a fixed-line operator. We consider a hybrid architecture where wireless broadband to not-spots is provided using point-to-multipoint whitespace links at the end of the existing fixed-line infrastructure connectivity points, such as an Exchange or a Cabinet. Our techno-economical studies incorporate real whitespace availability; population density and the location of Exchanges in the UK, along with costs related to infrastructure, backhaul, and sites, which were often overlooked in previous studies. The study findings indicate the provision of rural broadband in TVWS spectrum is a technically and commercially highly feasible solution. This is because our proposed solution not only eliminates the cost of the spectrum, by using whitespaces, but also other dominant costs, i.e. site procurement, build and backhaul costs can be greatly reduced by reusing existing infrastructure. Our modeling and analysis methodology is applied to UK but could be extended elsewhere.","PeriodicalId":224818,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128152842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practical radio environment mapping with geostatistics","authors":"Caleb T. Phillips, M. Ton, D. Sicker, D. Grunwald","doi":"10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478166","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present results from the first application of robust geostatistical modeling techniques to radio environment and coverage mapping of wireless networks. We perform our analysis of these methods with a case study mapping the coverage of a 2.5 GHz WiMax network at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Drawing from our experiences, we propose several new methods and extensions to basic geostatistical theory that are necessary for use in a radio mapping application. We also derive a set of best practices and discuss potential areas of future work. We find that this approach to radio environment mapping is feasible and produces maps that are more accurate and informative than both explicitly tuned path loss models and basic data fitting approaches.","PeriodicalId":224818,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130413897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Husheng Li, S. Dehnie, V. Chakravarthy, Zhiqiang Wu, Yao Ma, D. Walter
{"title":"Spectrum utilization efficiency of cognitive radio systems with limited sampling capability: The impact of spectrum non-contiguity","authors":"Husheng Li, S. Dehnie, V. Chakravarthy, Zhiqiang Wu, Yao Ma, D. Walter","doi":"10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478117","url":null,"abstract":"In cognitive radio systems, the available frequency bands are usually non-contiguous, which may cause impact on the spectrum utilization efficiency (SUE).When the receiver has a limited sampling capability, the aliasing phenomenon may cause interference among the signals at different frequency points, thus causing the loss of channel capacity. Information theoretic analysis is carried out to quantify the impact of spectrum non-contiguity on the channel capacity by analyzing the SUE. Beginning from the single sampler case, the analysis is also extended to the general case of sampler arrays. Numerical results are provided to answer several important questions on the impact of spectrum non-contiguity.","PeriodicalId":224818,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130923700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GLRT based cooperative spectrum sensing with soft combination in heterogeneous networks","authors":"Jun Luo, Jun Wang, Qiang Li, Shaoqian Li","doi":"10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478162","url":null,"abstract":"As it is not suffered by the well-known noise uncertainty problem of energy detection (ED), generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) based spectrum sensing schemes for a single secondary user node have recently been extensively addressed. In this paper, we extend the existing research to an optimal GLRT based cooperative spectrum sensing scheme in a heterogeneous network scenario, where each node can be equipped with different number of antennas and have different signal processing capacity, such as sampling rate. By considering the discrepancy of different secondary user nodes' sensing reliability due to different hardware configuration, we demonstrate that the optimal cooperative spectrum sensing scheme based on GLRT is a linear combination of each node's local test statistic. Moreover, the local test statistic is the logarithm of the arithmetic-to-geometric mean ratio of the eigenvalues associated with the sample covariance matrix. Furthermore, the optimal combining coefficient is a simple function of the numbers of the antennas and the received signal samples at each secondary user node, which can be intrinsically provided by each secondary user node without any prior information. Numerical results show that the proposed GLRT based cooperative spectrum sensing scheme performs better than the practical ED based scheme, i.e., equal gain combination based ED, especially under the case where the sensing reliability discrepancy of each secondary user node is significant.","PeriodicalId":224818,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125590684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
George Noorts, J. Engel, Jesse Taylor, D. Roberson, R. Bacchus, Tanim M. Taher, K. Zdunek
{"title":"An RF spectrum observatory database based on a Hybrid Storage System","authors":"George Noorts, J. Engel, Jesse Taylor, D. Roberson, R. Bacchus, Tanim M. Taher, K. Zdunek","doi":"10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478122","url":null,"abstract":"In 2007, the Wireless Network and Communications (WiNCom) Research Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology initiated a continuous RF spectrum measurement program in the frequency range 30 MHz to 6 GHz. The data measurement collection, now multiple Terabytes, was historically stored in a flat file format on multiple hard drives which was efficient and easy to deal with from a data collection perspective, but not very effective from an analysis and sharing perspective. This paper describes the data capture structure, the new database and data storage approach that has been created to enable large scale, “safe storage”, and to facilitate data queries and RF measurement analysis by researchers both inside and outside of IIT's network, and some of the application that have been implemented using this new structure.","PeriodicalId":224818,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114814974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chittabrata Ghosh, Hossein-Ali Safavi-Naeini, Sumit Roy, K. Doppler, Joshua Stahl
{"title":"QP-CSMA-CA: A modified CSMA-CA-based cognitive channel access mechanism with testbed implementation","authors":"Chittabrata Ghosh, Hossein-Ali Safavi-Naeini, Sumit Roy, K. Doppler, Joshua Stahl","doi":"10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478174","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a modified carrier sense multiple access-collision avoidance (CSMA-CA) mechanism, termed as quiet period-CSMA-CA (QP-CSMA-CA) is proposed, for the purposes of coexistence in a cognitive networking set-up with secondary clients that seek access using 802.11. In work to date, dedicated quiet periods have been defined for this purpose, as a synchronized duration wherein all clients are prohibited from uplink transmissions; this interval is intended for sensing channel status so as to detect out-of-network transmissions. However, such dedicated periods may adversely impact system throughput as the price for coexistence. In QP-CSMA-CA, the Wi-Fi nodes perform channel sensing during an extended back-off phase; thereby bypassing the need for separate dedicated sensing interval. The proposed QP-CSMA-CA protocol is implemented on the universal software radio peripheral (USRP)-based software defined radio platform and configured in a small network for measuring throughput and latency. Experimental and simulation results show the efficacy of the proposed algorithm over the dedicated sensing-based mechanism when compared in terms of system throughput and medium access latency.","PeriodicalId":224818,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121295603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The hinges of destiny: A decision analysis of spectrum users' choices","authors":"M. Weiss, Liu Cui","doi":"10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DYSPAN.2012.6478128","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamic spectrum access (DSA) has been a technological approach that has received considerable research attention over the past decade. At the same time, the relative paucity of deployed systems using some of these technologies speaks to either a mismatch between research priorities and practical needs, regulatory immaturity, technology immaturity, or a combination of these. In this paper, we examine the business decision that a spectrum entrant must take with regard to technology choice. We use a simple decision-analytic framework using standard Net Present Value (NPV) calculations to analyze that decision. Our conclusion is that, the spectrum decision is time dependent. Exclusive use offers a higher NPV than the alternatives in the long run, but it takes time for exclusive use to become the dominant choice. Cooperative sharing provides the second highest NPV when the spectrum market is liquid, followed by opportunistic sharing under optimistic spectrum availability and contention assumptions. If our assumptions are relatively close to reality, it is therefore not surprising that we do not see greater adoption of DSA technologies - it is not the top choice for spectrum entrants with a long term view. The second choice, cooperative sharing, does occur, but in the form of MVNO agreements. The last option for a spectrum entrant is opportunistic sharing. Why should an entrant settle for the third best approach?","PeriodicalId":224818,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128340171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}