Urban-Scale Networking in the TV White Spaces

Опубликовано 17 августа 2016, 20:39

Recent research advances have demonstrated that WiFi-like wireless networks can be built in television-band white spaces (TVWS). In this work, we pose the question, 'can urban-scale TVWS networks be built to cost-effectively address the problem of last-mile wireless access?' We develop fine-grained propagation models to consider a large class of urban-scale designs and evaluate their ability to achieve new cost-capacity-coverage design regions. Moreover, we address the potential of TVWS networks to provide new network-wide functionalities such as new modes of energy efficiency and adaptability.