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BBC response to Ofcom’s Consultation “TV white spaces: approach to coexistence”

Non-confidential Version 1 Response by British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc to the Submission to Ofcom on the Need for a Market Investigation into the Pay Tv Industry

1. This response (the “Response”) is made by British Sky Broadcasting Group plc (“Sky”) in response to the complaint made to Ofcom by British Telecommunications plc (“BT”), Setanta Sport Holdings Limited (“Setanta”), Top Up TV Europe Limited (“TUTV”) and Virgin Media Limited (“Virgin Media”), (together the “Complainants”) on the need for a market investigation into the pay TV industry, dated 3 ...

Towards Dynamic Real-Time Geo-location Databases for TV White Spaces

Recent FCC regulations on TV white spaces allow geo-location databases to be the sole source of spectrum information for White Space Devices (WSDs). Geo-location databases protect TV band incumbents by keeping track of TV transmitters and their protected service areas based on their location, transmission parameters and sophisticated propagation models. In this article, we argue that keeping tr...

LTE Uplink Extension in TV White Spaces

Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA)/Cognitive Radio (CR) represents a promising and versatile concept to improve the efficiency of spectrum exploitation by allowing unlicensed users to opportunistically access underutilised licensed bands, provided that no harmful interference is caused to the legitimate (licensed) users of the spectrum. This revolutionary spectrum access paradigm can be exploited no...

Mapping Cognitive Radio System Scenarios into the TVWS Context

Cognitive Radio has been one of the key research topics in the wireless community for about 10 years. The digital switch-over in the TV bands provides opportunities for Cognitive Radio Systems (CRS) to operate in the UHF spectrum under incumbent protection restrictions. Regulation bodies, in particular the FCC and OFCOM in the UK, have specified parameters under which CRS shall operate. In this...