Recent FCC regulations on TV white spaces allow geo-location databases to be the sole source of spectrum information for White Space Devices (WSDs). Geo-location databases protect TV band incumbents by keeping track of TV transmitters and their protected service areas based on their location, transmission parameters and sophisticated propagation models. In this article, we argue that keeping track of both TV transmitters and TV receivers (i.e. TV sets) can achieve significant improvement in the availability of white spaces. We first identify wasted spectrum opportunities, both temporal and spatial, due to the current approach of white spaces detection. We then propose DynaWhite, a cloud-based architecture that orchestrates the detection and dissemination of highly-dynamic, real-time, and fine-grained TV white space information. DynaWhite introduces the next generation of geo-location databases by combining traditional sensing techniques with a novel unconventional sensing approach based on the detection of the passive TV receivers using standard cell phones. We present a quantitative evaluation of the potential gains in white space availability for large scale deployments of DynaWhite. We finally identify challenges that need to be addressed in the research community in order to exploit this potential for leveraging dynamic real-time fine-grained TV white spaces.
On the other hand, detecting TV receivers has been addressed before using either special hardware, that senses the power leakage of a receiver's local oscillator @cite_10 @cite_6 , or using central trusted -updated databases @cite_5 @cite_2 . The former technique requires the usage of special hardware that needs to be setup in the vicinity of the TV set. Such techniques do not scale and are hard to deploy. The latter technique does not scale to a large scale.studies the effect of knowing TV receivers information on the available white spaces, in terms of amount of additional available frequencies, they assume that in some countries, e.g. Norway, everyone that has TV receiver have to register TV receiver information in order to pay the broadcasting license fees.
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The opening of the television bands in the United States presents an exciting opportunity for secondary spectrum utilization. Protecting licensed broadcast television viewers from harmful interference due to secondary spectrum usage is critical to the successful deployment of TV white space devices. A wide variety of secondary system operating scenarios must be considered in any potential interference analysis, as described below. Several different types of licensed television transmitters currently exist in the TV bands, along with secondary licensed services, such as wireless microphones. All licensed services must be adequately protected from harmful interference, which can readily and reliably be achieved with the described geo-location database methods. Specific implementation details of geo-location databases are discussed, including several complexity reduction techniques. Geo-location database techniques are also shown to more efficiently utilize available spectrum than other spectrum access techniques. Measurements performed at several locations clearly show that frequency spectrum is under-utilized. Cognitive radio is a strong candidate to ensure better spectrum utilization by providing access in an opportunistic manner. Simulations performed on the algorithm that we proposed show promising results in sensing vacant channels in TV bands. Here we present the work, which implements the algorithm on a real-time prototype, and measure its sensing performance in actual environments. Results show that our algorithm is robust under realistic conditions. This confirmation will give much needed confidence in the capability of cognitive radio systems to detect the operation of primary users and protect their use of spectrum. This paper discusses the increase in available white space spectrum using TV receiver information. TV receivers can increase the amount of available spectrum for cognitive radio devices in the TV bands by as much as 120 MHz.