SENSING WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS IN TELEVISION FREQUENCY BANDS
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- sensing, with a sensing device, a signal in a range of frequencies reserved for use by television broadcast systems in broadcasting television content;
calculating, with the sensing device, an estimate of a power spectral density (PSD) for the sensed signal;
filtering, with the sensing device, the estimated PSD to remove noise and generate a filtered PSD for the sensed signal;
analyzing, with the sensing device, the filtered PSD to identifying one or more candidate frequencies within the range of frequencies, wherein the one or more candidate frequencies comprise frequencies potentially in use by one or more wireless communication devices;
computing, with the sensing device, one or more test statistics for each of the one or more candidate frequencies, wherein each of the one or more test statistics define a property of the one or more candidate frequencies; and
comparing, with the sensing device, the one or more test statistics to one or more thresholds to identify those of the candidate frequencies that are actively in use by the one or more wireless communication devices.
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Abstract
In general, techniques are described for sensing wireless communications in television frequency bands, which may be implemented by a sensing device comprising a sensing unit, a power spectral density (PSD) estimation unit, a filter unit, a candidate selection unit, an analysis unit and a decision unit. The sensing unit senses a signal in the television frequencies bands. The PSD estimation unit calculates an estimate of a PSD for the sensed signal. The filter unit filters the estimated PSD. The candidate selection unit analyzes the filtered PSD to identify a candidate frequency representative of a potentially in use frequency. The analysis unit computes a test statistic for the candidate frequency. The decision unit compares the test statistic to a threshold to identify whether the candidate frequencies is actively in use by wireless communication devices.
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49 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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sensing, with a sensing device, a signal in a range of frequencies reserved for use by television broadcast systems in broadcasting television content; calculating, with the sensing device, an estimate of a power spectral density (PSD) for the sensed signal; filtering, with the sensing device, the estimated PSD to remove noise and generate a filtered PSD for the sensed signal; analyzing, with the sensing device, the filtered PSD to identifying one or more candidate frequencies within the range of frequencies, wherein the one or more candidate frequencies comprise frequencies potentially in use by one or more wireless communication devices; computing, with the sensing device, one or more test statistics for each of the one or more candidate frequencies, wherein each of the one or more test statistics define a property of the one or more candidate frequencies; and comparing, with the sensing device, the one or more test statistics to one or more thresholds to identify those of the candidate frequencies that are actively in use by the one or more wireless communication devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 40)
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12. A sensing device for sensing wireless communications comprising:
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a sensing unit that senses a signal in a range of frequencies reserved for use by television broadcast systems in broadcasting television content; a power spectral density (PSD) estimation unit that calculates an estimate of a power spectral density (PSD) for the sensed signal; at least one filter unit that filters the estimated PSD to remove noise and generate a filtered PSD for the sensed signal; a candidate selection unit that analyzes the filtered PSD to identify one or more candidate frequencies within the range of frequencies, wherein the one or more candidate frequencies comprise frequencies potentially in use by one or more wireless communication devices; one or more analysis units to compute one or more test statistics for each of the one or more candidate frequencies, wherein each of the one or more test statistics define a property of the one or more candidate frequencies; and a decision unit that compares the one or more test statistics to one or more thresholds to identify those of the candidate frequencies that are actively in use by the one or more wireless communication devices. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. An apparatus comprising:
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means for sensing a signal in a range of frequencies reserved for use by television broadcast systems in broadcasting television content; means for calculating an estimate of a power spectral density (PSD) for the sensed signal; means for filtering the estimated PSD to remove noise and generate a filtered PSD for the sensed signal; means for analyzing the filtered PSD to identifying one or more candidate frequencies within the range of frequencies, wherein the one or more candidate frequencies comprise frequencies potentially in use by one or more wireless communication devices; means for computing one or more test statistics for each of the one or more candidate frequencies, wherein each of the one or more test statistics define a property of the one or more candidate frequencies; means for comparing the one or more test statistics to one or more thresholds to identify those of the candidate frequencies that are actively in use by the one or more wireless communication devices. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that cause a processor to:
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sense a signal in a range of frequencies reserved for use by television broadcast systems in broadcasting television content; calculate an estimate of a power spectral density (PSD) for the sensed signal; filter the estimated PSD to remove noise and generate a filtered PSD for the sensed signal; analyze the filtered PSD to identifying one or more candidate frequencies within the range of frequencies, wherein the one or more candidate frequencies comprise frequencies potentially in use by one or more wireless communication devices; compute one or more test statistics for each of the one or more candidate frequencies, wherein each of the one or more test statistics define a property of the one or more candidate frequencies; and compare the one or more test statistics to one or more thresholds to identify those of the candidate frequencies that are actively in use by the one or more wireless communication devices. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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45. A method for obtaining features of a high-resolution power spectral density (PSD) of a detected signal, the method comprising:
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determining a height of the center of an energy concentration having a main lobe, wherein the height is measured as a difference between S[kc] and a reference floor level, wherein the reference floor level captures any surrounding, non-energy concentration, and noise, and wherein the reference floor level is estimated as the mean, median, or minimum of S[k], k=−
K+1, . . . , −
1, 0, 1, . . . , K;determining a width of the main lobe of the energy concentration, wherein the width is measured as a total number of frequency bins surrounding kc satisfying S[k]>
S[kc]/W, wherein W>
1 is a threshold parameter, and wherein the total number of frequency bins may be converted into hertz, and in order to refine the width estimate, including interpolating; anddetermining a power of the main lobe of the energy concentration, wherein the power is measured as the ratio between the power of frequency bins surrounding kc, and a total power expressed as - View Dependent Claims (46)
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- 47. A method of determining whether the detected signal is a legitimate wireless microphone signal, when a co-channel signal is an NTSC signal, the method comprising detecting a peak at a frequency equal to 5.75 MHz greater than the lower band edge frequency.
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