White Space Devices

"Regulatory Tutorial Material" compiled for the IEEE WhiteSpaces Study Group (Revision 5, March 2009)
https://mentor.ieee.org/802-sg-whitespace/dcn/09/sg-whitespace-09-0048-0...

"Analysis of hidden node margins for cognitive radio devices potentially using DTT and PMSE spectrum," by B. S. Randhawa, Z. Wang and I. Parker, ERA Technology Ltd. (January 2009) - research commissioned by Ofcom, which may become the basis for CEPT's performance standards
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radiocomms/ddr/documents/eracog.pdf

"Our own initial modelling studies for the UK agree with those of Ofcom in showing that, in some locations, a cognitive device with the sensitivity level proposed by Ofcom may in practice identify all Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) channels as occupied and, therefore, will have no white space available for its operation." - page 4 of British Telecom's response to Ofcom consultation on Cognitive Access to the Digital Dividend (April 2009) http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/cognitive/responses/bt.pdf

"Second Report and Order and Memorandum Opinion and Order: In the Matter of Unlicensed Operation in the TV Broadcast Bands (ET Docket No. 04-186) [and] Additional Spectrum for Unlicensed Devices Below 900 MHz and in the 3 GHz Band (ET Docket No. 02-380), US Federal Communications Commission, November 2008
http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2008/db1117/FCC-08-260A...

"A Cognitive Radio Prototype Operating in UHF TV Bands" by Monisha Ghosh, Vasanth Gaddam, Gene Turkenich & Kiran Challapali (Wireless Communications & Networking Dept. Philips Research North America), presented at DYSPAN 2008 - this describes the prototype which performed the best during the FCC tests
http://cms.comsoc.org/SiteGen/Uploads/Public/Docs_DYSPAN_2008/Philips_De...

Microsoft Research's "Networking Over White Spaces" (KNOWS) project, led by Ranveer Chandra, with Thomas Moscibroda, and Victor Bahl.

"How much white space is there?" by Mubaraq Mishra & Anant Sahai, University of California at Berkeley, Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2009-3 (January 2009) - data for the US only.
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-3.pdf

"White Space Networking with Wi-Fi like Connectivity," by Paramvir Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Thomas Moscibroda, Rohan Murty, Matt Welsh [of Microsoft Research and Harvard University] - paper presented at SIGCOMM-09, 17-21 August 2009, Barcelona, Spain.
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/papers/whitefi-sigcomm09.pdf

"TVWS [TV White Spaces] Regulatory History" by Rich Kennedy (May 2009), for the IEEE 802.19 Wireless Coexistence Technical Advisory Group
https://mentor.ieee.org/802.19/dcn/09/19-09-0023-00-tvws-tvws-regulatory...

"Evaluation of the Performance of Prototype TV-Band White Space Devices, Phase II"
Office of Engineering and Technology, US Federal Communications Commission
October 15, 2008
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-08-2243A3.pdf

"UK's Ofcom Proposes Unlicensed TV White Space Devices"
by Michael Marcus, SpectrumTalk blog, 14 December 2007
http://spectrumtalk.blogspot.com/2007/12/uks-ofcom-proposes-unlicensed-t...

"Comments for Analysys regarding Ofcom's Digital Dividend Review"
Open Spectrum UK (February 2007)
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/ddr/responses/nr/OpenSpectrumUK.pdf

OFCOM (UK) consultation on "cognitive access to the digital dividend" - proposed rules and responses to those proposals (16 February - 1 May 2009):
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/cognitive/

"Awarding the digital dividend in the UK and Europe"
by Mark Austin (OFCOM), presented at the IEEE 802 Plenary March 2009
https://mentor.ieee.org/802.18/dcn/09/18-09-0036-00-0000-ofcom-presentat...

Canada: "GL-05 - Interim Technical Guidelines for Remote Rural Broadband Systems Operating in the Band 512-698 MHz (TV Channels 21 to 51)"
Industry Canada (March 2007)
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf08739.html

Netherlands Antilles: "TV White Spaces" (January 2009)
"This is to convey the intention on the Telecommunication and Post Regulator of the Netherlands Antilles to consider the deployment of broadband wireless networks making use of TV White Spaces, in the Netherlands Antilles, based on the following guidelines..."
http://www.btnp.org/html/newsletter.php?ID=1234926064

CITEL's Permanent Consultative Committee II (CCP.II) is supposed to be developing a recommendation on the use of DTV white spaces throughout the Americas for approval at the 10-13 November 2009 meeting of CCP.II in Washington, DC. The draft recommendation is in document CCP.II-RADIO/doc.1997/09 - which doesn't seem to be available online.

CEPT Report 24 - Report C from CEPT to the European Commission in response to the Mandate on Technical considerations regarding harmonisation options for the Digital Dividend: "A preliminary assessment of the feasibility of fitting new/future applications/services into non-harmonised spectrum of the digital dividend (namely the so-called 'white spaces' between allotments)"
Electronic Communications Committee, June 2008
http://www.erodocdb.dk/Docs/doc98/official/pdf/CEPTREP024.PDF

"Ecma International starts TV White Spaces Standard"
press release, 17 March 2009
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS162600+17-Mar-2009+BW200...

Homepage of Ecma International's TC48-TG1 Task Group for High-speed wireless communication in TV White Spaces
http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/TC48-TG1.htm

Ecma International Draft Final Standard: "MAC and PHY for Operation in TV White Space" (October 2009)
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/drafts/tc48-2009-06...

"Unlicensed 'White Space Device' Operations on the TV Band and the Myth of Harmful Interference"
by Sascha D. Meinrath & Michael Calabrese
Policy Backgrounder, Wireless Future Program
New America Foundation, March 2008
http://www.newamerica.net/files/WSDBackgrounder.pdf

"White Space lobby leaps to Europe"
by Bill Ray, The Register, 30 January 2009
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/30/eu_white_space/print.html

"Europe has a chance to unite on broadband"
by Kevin J. O'Brien, New York Times, 28 November 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/technology/28iht-spectrum.1.18953735.html

"Technical Challenges for Cognitive Radio in the White Space Spectrum"
by Stephen J. Shellhammer, Ahmed K. Sadek and Wenyi Zhang (Qualcomm, 2009)
http://ita.ucsd.edu/workshop/09/files/paper/paper_1500.pdf

"System Design Issues in building a Cognitive Radio Network: IEEE 802.22" and "Detection of DTV signals at very low SNR using PN sequences" - Joint work with Steve Shellhammer (Qualcomm) & Rahul Tandra (U.C. Berkeley)
http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/~suhas/qcomtalk.ppt

"Tech Industry Leaders Join to Develop Guidelines for White Spaces Database"
http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/tech-industry-leaders-join-...

"The Spectrum Saga" [the wireless microphone industry perspective]
by David Davies, Pro-Sound News Europe, 8 January 2009
http://prosoundnewseurope.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=...