Universal Scanning GUI Tool for Available and Usable TV White Space (TVWS) Spectrum
Muneer Al-ZuBi, Mohamed-Slim Alouini

TL;DR
This paper presents a versatile GUI tool for evaluating TV white space spectrum availability and usability across any geographic location, integrating terrain models, regulatory parameters, and RF optimization techniques.
Contribution
The work introduces a generalized, flexible GUI tool that enables comprehensive spectrum analysis and RF planning for TVWS, adaptable to any region and frequency band.
Findings
The tool accurately identifies available TVWS channels in various geographic areas.
It effectively visualizes spectrum data and noise levels interactively.
RF optimization improves antenna orientation for better communication quality.
Abstract
In this era of advanced communication technologies, many remote rural and hard-to-reach areas still lack Internet access due to technological, geographical, and economic challenges. The TV white space (TVWS) technology has proven to be effective and feasible in connecting these areas to Internet service in many parts of the world. The TVWS-based systems operate based on geolocation white space databases (WSDB) to protect the primary systems from harmful interference. Thus, there is a critical need to identify the available and usable channels that can be utilized by secondary white space devices (WSDs) in a specific geographic area. In this work, we developed a generalized and flexible graphical user interface (GUI) tool to evaluate the availability and usability of the TVWS channels and their noise levels at each geographic location within the analyzed area. The developed tool has many…
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Taxonomy
TopicsTelecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies
Methodstravel james
