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A Comprehensive Survey on Networking over TV White Spaces
The 2008 Federal Communication Commission (FCC) ruling in the United States
opened up new opportunities for unlicensed operation in the TV white space
spectrum. Networking protocols over the TV white spaces promise to subdue the
shortcomings of existing short-range multi-hop wireless architectures and
protocols by offering more availability, wider bandwidth, and longer-range
communication. The TV white space protocols are the enabling technologies for
sensing and monitoring, Internet-of-Things (IoT), wireless broadband access,
real-time, smart and connected community, and smart utility applications. In
this paper, we perform a retrospective review of the protocols that have been
built over the last decade and also the new challenges and the directions for
future work. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive
survey to present and compare existing networking protocols over the TV white
spaces.Comment: 19 page