IEEE Working Group Approves New TV White Spaces Standard
The IEEE 802.22 Working Group on Wireless Regional Area Networks said it approved IEEE 802.22b-2015, designed to support point-to-multipoint wireless broadband operation in the VHF and UHF TV bands. “The standard is intended to support wireless broadband services and monitoring…
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applications for the world’s traditionally underserved rural areas, where most empty TV channels can be found and where Internet access services are often scarce,” the group said. “IEEE 802.22b-2015 is designed to double the throughput of devices based on the original IEEE 802.22 standard,” said Chang-woo Pyo, chair of the task force that created IEEE 802.22b. It will enable more capacity for machine-to-machine communications and the IoT, he said.