Indoor White Space Network Design

of thesis entitled: Indoor White Space Network Design Submitted by ZHANG, Jincheng for the degree of Master of Philosophy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in July 2014 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released the final rule to approve of TV white spaces (TVWS), i.e., locally vacant TV channels, for unlicensed use in 2010. This TV spectrum will mitigate the shortage of wireless spectrum resources and provide opportunities for new applications. TVWS differ from the conventional Wi-Fi spectrum in three aspects: spectrum fragmentation, spatial variation, and temporal variation. These differences make the network design over TVWS challeng-