Details the paradigms of opportunistic spectrum sharing and white space access as effective means to satisfy increasing demand for high-speed wireless communication and for novel wireless communication applications

This book addresses opportunistic spectrum sharing and white space access, being particularly mindful of practical considerations and solutions. In Part I, spectrum sharing implementation issues are considered in terms of hardware platforms and software architectures for realization of flexible and spectrally agile transceivers. Part II addresses practical mechanisms supporting spectrum sharing, including spectrum sensing for opportunistic spectrum access, machine learning and decision making capabilities, aggregation of spectrum opportunities, and spectrally-agile radio waveforms.

Part III presents the ongoing work on policy and regulation for efficient and reliable spectrum sharing, including major recent steps forward in TV White Space (TVWS) regulation and associated geolocation database approaches, policy management aspects, and novel licensing schemes supporting spectrum sharing. In Part IV, business and economic aspects of spectrum sharing are considered, including spectrum value modeling, discussion of issues around disruptive innovation that are pertinent to opportunistic spectrum sharing and white space access, and business benefits assessment of the novel spectrum sharing regulatory proposal Licensed Shared Access. Part V discusses deployments of opportunistic spectrum sharing and white space access solutions in practice, including work on TVWS system implementations, standardization activities, and development and testing of systems according to the standards.

Discusses aspects of pioneering standards such as the IEEE 802.22 Wi-Far standard, the IEEE 802.11af White-Fi standard, the IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks Standards Committee standards, and the ETSI Reconfiguration Radio Systems standardsInvestigates regulatory and regulatory-linked solutions assisting opportunistic spectrum sharing and white space access, including geo-location database approaches and licensing enhancementsCovers the pricing and value of spectrum, the economic effects and potentials of such technologies, and provides detailed business assessments of some particularly innovative regulatory proposals The flexible and efficient use of radio frequencies is necessary to cater for the increasing data traffic demand worldwide. This book addresses this necessity through its extensive coverage of opportunistic spectrum sharing and white space access solutions.

Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing and White Space Access: The Practical Reality is a great resource for telecommunication engineers, researchers, and students.

Dr. Oliver Holland is Research Fellow at the Centre for Telecommunications Research at King's College London, United Kingdom.

Prof. Hanna Bogucka is Professor at the Chair of Wireless Communications at Poznan University of Technology, Poland.

Dr. Arturas Medeisis is Associate Professor and Chair of the Telecommunications Engineering Department at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania.

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS xi

INTRODUCTION xv
Oliver Holland, Hanna Bogucka, and Arturas Medeisis

ACRONYMS xxiii

PART I FLEXIBLE RADIO HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PLATFORMS SUPPORTING SPECTRUM SHARING 1

1 The Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) Family of Low-Cost SDRs 3
Matt Ettus and Martin Braun

2 On the GNU Radio Ecosystem 25
Thomas W. Rondeau

3 Wireless Open-Access Research Platform (WARP) for Flexible Radio 49
Junaid Ansari and Petri Mähönen

4 A Dynamically Reconfigurable Software Radio Framework: Iris 81
Paul Sutton

5 OpenAirInterface and ExpressMIMO2 for Spectrally Agile Communication 99
Bassem Zayen, Florian Kaltenberger, and Raymond Knopp

6 CORAL Cognitive WiFi Networking System: Case Studies of Rural Applications in India 123
John Sydor

PART II PRACTICAL MECHANISMS SUPPORTING SPECTRUM SHARING 141

7 Cooperative Sensing of Spectrum Opportunities 143
Giuseppe Caso, Luca De Nardis, Ragnar Thobaben, and Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto

8 A Machine-Learning Approach Based on Bio-Inspired Intelligence 167
Dimitrios Karvounas, Aimilia Bantouna, Andreas Georgakopoulos, Kostas Tsagkaris, Vera Stavroulaki, and Panagiotis Demestichas

9 Spectrally Agile Waveforms 191
Alexander M. Wyglinski, Adrian Kliks, Pawel Kryszkiewicz, Amit P. Sail, and Hanna Bogucka

10 Aggregation of Spectrum Opportunities 221
Florian Kaltenberger, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, Fotis Foukalas, Shuyu Ping, and Oliver Holland

11 Policies for Efficient Spectrum Sharing 239
Liljana Gavrilovska, Vladimir Atanasovski, and Gianmarco Baldini

PARTIII REGULATORY SOLUTIONS FOR SPECTRUM SHARING 257

12 International Regulatory Framework for Spectrum and Spectrum Sharing 259
Peter Anker

13 Regulations for Spectrum Sharing in the USA 277
Lee Pucker

14 UK Framework for Access to TV White Spaces 313
Hamid Reza Karimi

15 Spectrum Sharing Using Geo-Location Databases 339
Jeffrey C. Schmidt and Peter Stanforth

16 Novel Licensing Schemes 369
Oliver Holland, Arturo Basaure, and Wataru Yamada

PARTIV SPECTRUM SHARING BUSINESS SCENARIOS AND ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS 391

17 Economic and Game Theoretic Models for Spectrum Sharing 393
Hamed Ahmadi, Irene Macaluso, Zaheer Khan, Hanna Bogucka, and Luiz A. DaSilva

18 Business Benefits of Licensed Shared Access (LSA) for Key Stakeholders 407
Marja Matinmikko, Hanna Okkonen, Seppo Yrjölä, Petri Ahokangas, Miia Mustonen, Marko Palola, Vânia Gonçalves, Anri Kivimäki, Esko Luttinen, and Jukka Kemppainen

19 Initial Standardization of Disruptive Innovations in Radiocommunication Technology in Consortia 425
Dirk-Oliver von der Emden

20 Spectrum as a Platform: a Critical Assessment of the Value Promise of Spectrum Sharing Solutions 453
Olivier Rits, Simon Delaere, and Pieter Ballon

PART V SPECTRUM SHARING DEPLOYMENT SCENARIOS IN PRACTICE 479

21 TV White Spaces with Geo-Location Database Access: Practical Considerations and Trials in Europe 481
Rogério Dionísio, José Ribeiro, Jorge Ribeiro, Paulo Marques, and Jonathan Rodriguez

22 Developments and Practical Field Trials of TVWS Technologies 513
Kentaro Ishizu, Keiichi Mizutani, Takeshi Matsumura, Ha-Nguyen Tran, Stanislav Filin, Hirokazu Sawada, and Hiroshi Harada

23 Cognitive Wireless Regional Area Network Standard 551
Apurva Mody, Gerald Chouinard, Stephen J. Shellhammer, Monisha Ghosh, and Dave Cavalcanti

24 ETSI Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing Technology for (TV) White Spaces 605
Markus Dominik Mueck, Naotaka Sato, Chen Sun, Martino Freda, Pekka Ojanen, Dong Zhou, Junfeng Xiao, Rogério Pais Dionisio, and Paulo Marques

25 The IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks Standards Committee (DySPAN-SC) and IEEE 1900 Working Groups 631
Oliver Holland, Hiroshi Harada, Ha-Nguyen Tran, Bernd Bochow, Masayuki Ariyoshi, Matthew Sherman, Michael Gundlach, Stanislav Filin, and Adrian Kliks

26 Spectrum to Unlash Machine-to-Machine Uptake 649
Mischa Dohler and Yue Gao

CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK 679
Oliver Holland, Hanna Bogucka, and Arturas Medeisis

INDEX 689