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Unified Solution Towards Deployment of TV White Space in Africa

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TV white spaces (TVWS), are seen as a key technology to enable the efficient use of scarce sub-GHz spectrum allowing for applications that may have a huge impact on internet penetration in rural parts of Africa. We first give an overview on TVWS, its use cases and highlight possible challenges against its uptake. Then we describe our carrier-grade wireless back-hauling solution (WiBACK) and discuss its capability for working with a geolocation database ensuring zero interference with licensed users.

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    Assumed placed at a fixed location such as rooftop.

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    http://www.wiback.org

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Acknowledgment

This work has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of the Federal Republic of Germany (Förderkennzeichen 01 BU 1116).

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  1. Fraunhofer FOKUS, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Philipp Batroff, Osianoh Glenn Aliu, Eric Schütz, Mathias Kretschmer, Christian Niephaus & Karl Jonas

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  2. Scientific and Industrial Research and Development Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe

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Batroff, P., Aliu, O.G., Schütz, E., Kretschmer, M., Niephaus, C., Jonas, K. (2014). Unified Solution Towards Deployment of TV White Space in Africa. In: Bissyandé, T., van Stam, G. (eds) e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries. AFRICOMM 2013. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 135. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08368-1_13

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