Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
DIMSUMNet: New Directions in Wireless Networking Using Coordinated Dynamic Spectrum Access
WOWMOM '05 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Tight approximation algorithms for maximum general assignment problems
SODA '06 Proceedings of the seventeenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithm
Partially overlapped channels not considered harmful
SIGMETRICS '06/Performance '06 Proceedings of the joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Estimation of link interference in static multi-hop wireless networks
IMC '05 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet Measurement
Optimal channel probing and transmission scheduling for opportunistic spectrum access
Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Allocating dynamic time-spectrum blocks in cognitive radio networks
Proceedings of the 8th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Interference map for 802.11 networks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
SMARTA: a self-managing architecture for thin access points
CoNEXT '06 Proceedings of the 2006 ACM CoNEXT conference
A case for adapting channel width in wireless networks
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
White space networking with wi-fi like connectivity
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference on Data communication
Energy-efficient communication in next generation rural-area wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM workshop on Cognitive radio networks
The spaces between us: setting and maintaining boundaries in wireless spectrum access
Proceedings of the sixteenth annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Understanding Wi-Fi 2.0: from the economical perspective of wireless service providers
IEEE Wireless Communications
On the feasibility of effective opportunistic spectrum access
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Cognitive radios for dynamic spectrum access: from concept to reality
IEEE Wireless Communications
Optimal discovery strategies in white space networks
ESA'11 Proceedings of the 19th European conference on Algorithms
Application-aware dynamic spectrum access
Wireless Networks
The effectiveness of opportunistic spectrum access: a measurement study
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
TV white spaces exploitation through a bicameral geo-location database
Telecommunications Policy
Practical conflict graphs for dynamic spectrum distribution
Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS/international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Exploring indoor white spaces in metropolises
Proceedings of the 19th annual international conference on Mobile computing & networking
Review: Vulnerabilities in cognitive radio networks: A survey
Computer Communications
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In November 2008, the FCC ruled that the digital TV whitespaces be used for unlicensed access. This is an exciting development because DTV whitespaces are in the low frequency range (50-698 MHz) compared to typical cellular and ISM bands, thus resulting in much better propagation characteristics and much higher spectral efficiencies. The FCC has also mandated certain guidelines for short range unlicensed access, so as to avoid any interference to DTV receivers. We consider the problem of WiFi like access (popularly referred to as WiFi 2.0) for enterprizes. We assume that the access points and client devices are equipped with cognitive radios, i.e., they can adaptively choose the center frequency, bandwidth and ower of operation. The access points can be equipped with one or more radios. Our goal is to design a complete system, which (i) does not violate the FCC mandate, (ii) dynamically assigns center frequency and bandwidth to each access point based on their demands and (iii) squeezes the maximum efficiency from the available spectrum. This problem is far more general than prior work that investigated dynamic spectrum allocation in cellular and ISM bands, due to the non-homogenous nature of the whitespaces, i.e., different whitespace widths in different parts of the spectrum and the large range of frequency bands with different propagation characteristics. This calls for a more holistic approach to system design that also accounts for frequency dependent propagation characteristics and radio frontend characteristics. In this paper, we first propose design rules for holistic system design. We then describe an architecture derived from our design rules. Finally we propose demand based dynamic spectrum allocation algorithms with provable worst case guarantees. We provide extensive simulation results showing that (i) the performance of our algorithm is within 94% of the optimal in typical settings and (ii) and the DTV whitespaces can provide significantly higher data rates compared to the 2.4GHz ISM band. Our approach is general enough for designing any system with access to a wide range of spectrum.