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A Prototype of TV White Space Spectrum Sensing and Power Measurement
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Some key challenges remain to be overcome before spectrum sensing can be widely used to identify spectrum opportunities in the TV bands. To fulfill the strict sensing requirement specified by FCC, a comprehensive sensing algorithm, which produces high SNR gain and maintains sensing robustness under complex noise conditions, needs to be implemented. In addition, carefully designed physical features and improvement on cost performance ratio are also essential if a prototype is to be commercialized. To the best of our knowledge, no success has ever been announced in developing a sensing prototype that fulfills both FCC sensing requirement and the above mentioned features. In this paper, we introduce a recently developed sensing prototype for Japanese digital TV signals of ISDB-T. The prototype operates in the Japanese UHF TV band of 470-770MHz and can reliably identify presence/absence of an ISDB-T signal at the level of -114dBm in a 6MHz channel. Moreover, it has constrained size and weight, and is capable of accurately measuring power of an ISDB-T signal at an extremely low level. Efforts on reducing cost have also been made by avoiding the use of electronic components/devices of high price. Both laboratory and field tests are performed to evaluate its sensing performance and power measurement capability. In the laboratory test, sensing performance under conditions of adjacent channel interference and frequency offset, and power measurement accuracy, are checked. In field tests, the prototype is attached in a vehicle and is checked for its capability to identify the presence of purposely broadcasted ISDB-T signals at some fixed locations and also during movement of the vehicle.
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- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E97-B No.2 pp.314-325
- Publication Date
- 2014/02/01
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- 1745-1345
- DOI
- 10.1587/transcom.E97.B.314
- Type of Manuscript
- Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Technologies for Effective Utilization of Spectrum White Space)
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Chunyi SONG
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Takeshi MATSUMURA
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Hiroshi HARADA
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
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Chunyi SONG, Takeshi MATSUMURA, Hiroshi HARADA, "A Prototype of TV White Space Spectrum Sensing and Power Measurement" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications,
vol. E97-B, no. 2, pp. 314-325, February 2014, doi: 10.1587/transcom.E97.B.314.
Abstract: Some key challenges remain to be overcome before spectrum sensing can be widely used to identify spectrum opportunities in the TV bands. To fulfill the strict sensing requirement specified by FCC, a comprehensive sensing algorithm, which produces high SNR gain and maintains sensing robustness under complex noise conditions, needs to be implemented. In addition, carefully designed physical features and improvement on cost performance ratio are also essential if a prototype is to be commercialized. To the best of our knowledge, no success has ever been announced in developing a sensing prototype that fulfills both FCC sensing requirement and the above mentioned features. In this paper, we introduce a recently developed sensing prototype for Japanese digital TV signals of ISDB-T. The prototype operates in the Japanese UHF TV band of 470-770MHz and can reliably identify presence/absence of an ISDB-T signal at the level of -114dBm in a 6MHz channel. Moreover, it has constrained size and weight, and is capable of accurately measuring power of an ISDB-T signal at an extremely low level. Efforts on reducing cost have also been made by avoiding the use of electronic components/devices of high price. Both laboratory and field tests are performed to evaluate its sensing performance and power measurement capability. In the laboratory test, sensing performance under conditions of adjacent channel interference and frequency offset, and power measurement accuracy, are checked. In field tests, the prototype is attached in a vehicle and is checked for its capability to identify the presence of purposely broadcasted ISDB-T signals at some fixed locations and also during movement of the vehicle.
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