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Performance of Secondary Wireless Networks with Contention Control in TV White Spaces

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In this paper we study the spectrum coexistence of secondary wireless networks with contention control and TV services. We propose to use the carrier sensing threshold as a parameter to control the density of secondary transmitters and through that the generated secondary interference to the TV system. For the calculated threshold we propose a simple method to assess the data rate of the secondary system. Using this method one can study whether the secondary performance is limited due to the TV protection requirements or not. Also, the method can be used to study the trade-off between the secondary performance and the TV protection requirement.

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Acknowledgment

This work was supported in part by the Academy- of-Finland funded project SMACIW under Grant no. 265040 and part of this work has been performed in the framework of the FP7 project ICT 317669 METIS, which is partly funded by the European Union.

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  1. Communications and Networking Department, Aalto University, School of Electrical Engineering, Espoo, Finland

    Byungjin Cho, Konstantinos Koufos & Riku Jäntti

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Cho, B., Koufos, K. & Jäntti, R. Performance of Secondary Wireless Networks with Contention Control in TV White Spaces. Mobile Netw Appl 19, 467–472 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-014-0508-9

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