Proposal for Improving White-Space Channel Availability

A major concern in implementing white-space technology in a television broadcasting system is the ability of the system to provide information about the vacant channels while guaranteeing protection to its primary users. Moreover, in the developing countries, the allocation of television broadcastin...

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Main Authors: Lessy Sutiyono Aji, Filbert H. Juwono, Gunawan Wibisono, Dadang Gunawan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2018-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8485683/
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author Lessy Sutiyono Aji
Filbert H. Juwono
Gunawan Wibisono
Dadang Gunawan
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description A major concern in implementing white-space technology in a television broadcasting system is the ability of the system to provide information about the vacant channels while guaranteeing protection to its primary users. Moreover, in the developing countries, the allocation of television broadcasting channels is not as good as that in the developed countries. Therefore, there is a high possibility of overlaps between the digital television terrestrial coverage areas and white-space areas. Herein, we propose a method involving the use of four zones—prohibited, strict, moderate, and loose (PSML)—to model the television white-space system. We use a television coverage area that has less than 70% location probability to accommodate the possibility of overlaps between the white space and the protection areas. We also propose a protection ratio value to complement the standard given by the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) for countries implementing the digital video broadcasting system (DVB-T2). We conduct a test to analyze the implementation of the proposed PSML method in Bali Island, Indonesia. The results show that our model can provide more white-space channels than the models proposed by Villardi and the FCC when applied to transition areas between urban and rural regions.
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spelling doaj.art-b652f9cbbc4443b5bbfb0157e8933fc62022-12-21T22:24:36ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362018-01-016595285953910.1109/ACCESS.2018.28745908485683Proposal for Improving White-Space Channel AvailabilityLessy Sutiyono Aji0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0026-1708Filbert H. Juwono1Gunawan Wibisono2Dadang Gunawan3Department of Electrical Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Kampus Depok, Depok, Jawa Barat, IndonesiaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Curtin University Malaysia, Miri, MalaysiaDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Kampus Depok, Depok, Jawa Barat, IndonesiaDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Kampus Depok, Depok, Jawa Barat, IndonesiaA major concern in implementing white-space technology in a television broadcasting system is the ability of the system to provide information about the vacant channels while guaranteeing protection to its primary users. Moreover, in the developing countries, the allocation of television broadcasting channels is not as good as that in the developed countries. Therefore, there is a high possibility of overlaps between the digital television terrestrial coverage areas and white-space areas. Herein, we propose a method involving the use of four zones—prohibited, strict, moderate, and loose (PSML)—to model the television white-space system. We use a television coverage area that has less than 70% location probability to accommodate the possibility of overlaps between the white space and the protection areas. We also propose a protection ratio value to complement the standard given by the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) for countries implementing the digital video broadcasting system (DVB-T2). We conduct a test to analyze the implementation of the proposed PSML method in Bali Island, Indonesia. The results show that our model can provide more white-space channels than the models proposed by Villardi and the FCC when applied to transition areas between urban and rural regions.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8485683/TV white spaceno-talk regionFCC standardPSML
spellingShingle Lessy Sutiyono Aji
Filbert H. Juwono
Gunawan Wibisono
Dadang Gunawan
Proposal for Improving White-Space Channel Availability
IEEE Access
TV white space
no-talk region
FCC standard
PSML
title Proposal for Improving White-Space Channel Availability
title_full Proposal for Improving White-Space Channel Availability
title_fullStr Proposal for Improving White-Space Channel Availability
title_full_unstemmed Proposal for Improving White-Space Channel Availability
title_short Proposal for Improving White-Space Channel Availability
title_sort proposal for improving white space channel availability
topic TV white space
no-talk region
FCC standard
PSML
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8485683/
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