Azimuth Variable-Path Loss Fitting with Received Signal Power Data for White Space Boundary Estimation

Kenshi HORIHATA  Issei KANNO  Akio HASEGAWA  Toshiyuki MAEYAMA  Yoshio TAKEUCHI  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E99-B   No.1   pp.87-94
Publication Date: 2016/01/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.2015ISP0014
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Progress in Antennas, Propagation and Wireless Systems Related to Topics in ISAP2014)
Category: Wireless Communication Technologies
Keyword: 
spectrum database,  radio environment map,  spectrum sharing,  pathloss fitting,  azimuth variable,  

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Summary: 
This paper shows accuracy of using azimuth-variable path-loss fitting in white-space (WS) boundary-estimation. We perform experiments to evaluate this method, and demonstrate that the required number of sensors can be significantly reduced. We have proposed a WS boundary-estimation framework that utilizes sensors to not only obtain spectrum sensing data, but also to estimate the boundaries of the incumbent radio system (IRS) coverage. The framework utilizes the transmitter position information and pathloss fitting. The pathloss fitting describes the IRS coverage by approximating the well-known pathloss prediction formula from the received signal power data, which is measured using sensors, and sensor-transmitter separation distances. To enhance its accuracy, we have further proposed a pathloss-fitting method that employs azimuth variables to reflect the azimuth dependency of the IRS coverage, including the antenna directivity of the transmitter and propagation characteristics.