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Towards Affordable Broadband Communication: A Quantitative Assessment of TV White Space in Tanzania

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dc.creator Matogoro, Jabhera
dc.creator Mvungi, Nerey H.
dc.creator Anatory, Justinian
dc.creator Karandikar, Abhay
dc.creator Singh, Jaspreet
dc.date 2017-10-03T09:44:56Z
dc.date 2017-10-03T09:44:56Z
dc.date 2017-09
dc.date.accessioned 2018-03-27T08:53:10Z
dc.date.available 2018-03-27T08:53:10Z
dc.identifier Jabhera Matogoro, Nerey H. Mvungi, Justinian Anatory, Abhay Karandikar, Jaspreet Singh, “Towards Affordable Broadband Communication: A Quantitative Assessment of TV White Space in Tanzania”, Proceedings of the 1st EAI International Conference on ICT for Development for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 25th -27th Sept. 2017
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4577
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4577
dc.description Confrence paper
dc.description A quantitative assessment of TV White Space in Tanzania was conducted to assess the level of spectrum utilization as well as a key milestone towards the use of white space for affordable broadband communication. Two approaches have been used; pollution and protection viewpoints and experimental spectrum measurements based on energy detection principle. The study focused on 470 – 694 MHz UHF spectrum band which is used for digital terrestrial television in Tanzania. It was found that, more than 120 MHz is available as white space in various locations in Tanzania when pollution and protection view point was used and about 184 MHz are available as white space in Dodoma urban using experimental spectrum measurements and almost 100% of the available frequencies are not used in Dodoma rural. Both approaches revealed that there is low spectrum utilization and therefore presents a best case towards development of dynamic spectrum access technologies in Tanzania.
dc.language en
dc.publisher EAI
dc.subject White Space,
dc.subject Spectrum Analyzer,
dc.subject energy detection principle,
dc.subject dynamic spectrum access
dc.title Towards Affordable Broadband Communication: A Quantitative Assessment of TV White Space in Tanzania
dc.type Conference Proceedings


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