Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing and White Space Access (eBook Code, 1st)

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