RETRACTED CHAPTER: A Planning Tool for TV White Space Deployments

There have been numerous studies conducted on the availability of TV white spaces in India, which show that white spaces are plentiful. If one needs to harness this spectrum, there is a need for techniques to compute suitable locations where secondary base stations can be placed for providing broadband access. To address this issue, we have come up with a planning tool which determines the best locations for placement of secondary antennas based on secondary base station’s coverage area, population of the region, throughput required and other such parameters. Our real-time model uses different propagation models to compute the path loss, and subsequently the throughput using Shannon’s theorem, to determine the optimal placement of secondary TV white space antennas. Experiments with our tool show that it can provide good placement of secondary base stations and provide high throughput to the covered users. We believe that a tool like ours can accelerate the pace of deployment of secondary networks in the TV white space spectrum.