REM-enabled opportunistic LTE in the TV band
Jaap van de Beek, Erik Lidström, Tao Cai, Yong Gang Xie, Valentin Rakovic, Vladimir M. Atanasovski, Liljana M. Gavrilovska, Janne Riihijärvi, Petri Mähönen, Antoine Dejonghe, Peter Van Wesemael, Mattias Desmet · 2012
In this demonstration paper we describe a prototype of an LTE system deployment that opportunistically exploits the spectral white spaces in the upper UHF TV bands, intelligently guided in its spectum access by a radio environment map (REM). The architecture is modular in the sense that interfaces are generic and minimal. In the proposed demo we will illustrate how information of primary transmitters and other secondary transmitters as well as estimates of the radio field strength over frequency, time and space can be made available and exploited by a secondary TDD-LTE base station to make judicious decisions on its spectral occupation.