A quantitative assessment of wireless spectrum measurements for dynamic spectrum access

Srikanth Pagadarai; Alexander M.  Wyglinski

4th International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications

Research Article

A quantitative assessment of wireless spectrum measurements for dynamic spectrum access

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    author={Srikanth Pagadarai and Alexander M.  Wyglinski},
    title={A quantitative assessment of wireless spectrum measurements for dynamic spectrum access},
    proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CROWNCOM},
    year={2009},
    month={8},
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    doi={10.1109/CROWNCOM.2009.5189413}
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Srikanth Pagadarai
Alexander M. Wyglinski
Year: 2009
A quantitative assessment of wireless spectrum measurements for dynamic spectrum access
CROWNCOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CROWNCOM.2009.5189413

Srikanth Pagadarai¹^,*, Alexander M. Wyglinski¹^,*

1: Wireless Innovation Laboratory ,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA 01609-2280

*Contact email: srikanthp@ece.wpi.edu, alexw@ece.wpi.edu

Abstract

In this paper, we provide a qualitative assessment of the spectrum usage across five geographically separated sites in four mid-size metropolitan centers located in the United States. Specifically, the variations in spectrum occupancy across space, time and frequency are investigated and compared between different sites within the city as well as with other cities. We show that the variation at different locations within the same city is considerably high. Furthermore, we present a simple four-state Markov model that characterizes time-varying behavior of the spectral occupancy of a frequency channel.

Published: 2009-08-04
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CROWNCOM.2009.5189413