Monday, March 19, 2012

Interference protection for unlicensed devices

It’s generally accepted that an unlicensed device must accept interference from any source, and may not cause harmful interference to any licensed service; for example, Weiser and Hatfield explain that Part 15 “safeguards only the rights of licensed spectrum users and provides no protection to commons access users”  in their 2005 paper Policing the Spectrum Commons.

I don’t read it that way. Unlicensed devices shouldn’t cause harmful interference to other unlicensed devices, either.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Receiver interference limits presented at FCC workshop

I made a presentation and participated in a panel at the FCC Workshop on Spectrum Efficiency and Receivers on March 12-13, 2012 (Public Notice PDF). My presentation is at http://sdrv.ms/AwoAZj. My presentation is on the day 2 video starting at time code 36:00 (there is also video for day 1); my opening comments on the subsequent panel are at 86:00, and various times subsequently.

A two page summary of the proposal is available at http://sdrv.ms/ReceiverLimits