Testbed for combination of local sensing with geolocation database in real environments

Abstract

This article describes an experimental testbed that combines wireless microphone sensors with a web-based terrestrial digital video broadcasting geolocation database and a program making and special events spectrumbooking platform. Software defined radio and Internet technologies are the enabling tools in use. The key sensing techniques are identified and implemented. Test trials in a real scenario have shown that the platform was able to receive information from a DVB-T geolocation database and a PMSE spectrum-booking platform, updating the list of vacant channels with blind sensing techniques. The proposed method has shown capabilities to protect primary users of interferences from secondary users of the spectrum.