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IEEE 802.22 Wireless Regional Area Networks

Enabling Rural Broadband Wireless Access Using Cognitive Radio Technology

IEEE P802.22 Wireless RANs

Date: 2010-06-15

Authors:
Name

Company

Apurva N. Mody BAE Systems

Gerald
Chouinard

Address

Phone

email

P. O. Box 868,
MER 15-2350,
Nashua, NH 03061

1-404-8190314, 1-603885-2621

apurva.mody@baesyst
ems.com,
apurva_mody@yahoo.
com

1-613-9982500

Gerald.chouinard@crc
.ca

Communication
s Research
Center, Canada

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Outline

IEEE 802.22 Standard Overview

IEEE Standards and IEEE 802.22

Overview of the IEEE 802.22
CONOPS
Reference Architecture
Frame Structure
PHY
MAC
Cognitive Radio Capabilities
Spectrum Sensing
Geo-location
Interface to Incumbent Database Service
Security

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IEEE Standards Association Hierarchy

Courtesy, Paul Nikolich, Chair,
IEEE 802

802.22
WRAN
Submission

More than 300

Standards Being
Developed Under
the IEEE SA
Umbrella

802.11
WLAN
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Overview of the IEEE 802.22 Standard

Focus - Rural Broadband Wireless Access
Core Technology - Cognitive radio technology based
un-licensed use, primarily designed to operate in the
TV Whitespaces from 54-862 MHz, on a noninterfering basis with the primary users (incumbents).

Cognitive radio based unlicensed usage, ideally

suited for regional and
rural broadband wireless
access

MAC provides
compensation for
long round trip
delays

Representation Commercial industry, Broadcasters,

Govt., regulators, and Academia

Membership 40 on an average
PHY optimized to
tolerate long channel
response and
frequency selective
fading channel

Projects IEEE 802.22, IEEE 802.22.1, IEEE

802.22.1
CONOPS - VHF and UHF band operation allows long
range propagation and cell radius of 17 33 km.
Approx 280 MHz of Bandwidth with 47 TV channels.
PHY - Optimized for long channel response times and
highly frequency selective fading channels.
MAC Provides compensation for long round trip
delays
Unique features introduced for Cognitive Radio based
operation: spectrum sensing, spectrum management,
intra-system co-existence, geo-location and security
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Mobility and Portability - Portability IEEE 802.22

allows portability (nomadic use). In case the rules do
change, IEEE 802.22 PHY is designed to support mobility
of up to 114 km/hr (no hand-off is included in the current
version).
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IEEE 802.22 CONOPS

Sensing and GPS
Antennas
Directional Tx / Rx
Antenna at the
Subscriber
Operation in the VHF / UHF Bands. Frequency Allocation for the
United States 54 60, 76 88, 174 216, 470 - 608 and 614
698 MHz => Total of 282 MHz or 47 Channels
Network Topology Point-to-Multipoint (PMP)
Max EIRP and Cell Radius Fixed BS and Fixed Subscribers
using 4W EIRP, Cell Radius 10 100 km. Portable Subscribers
Station Supported. (Higher power BS allowed in other countries)

Tx / Rx antenna BS uses sectorized or omni-directional antenna.

At the subscriber Tx /Rx antenna is directional with 14 dB of frontto-back lobe suppression,
Sensing antenna - Requires horizontal and vertical polarization
sensitivities to sense TV and microphone signals respectively, with
omni-directional pattern.
Geo-location - GPS based geo-location is mandatory, but terrestrial
geo-location (triangulation) is supported.
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IEEE 802.22
Cognitive Node: Reference
Architecture
The proposed Protocol
Reference Model (PRM)
separates the Cognitive Plane
from the Data, Control and
Management planes
IEEE 802.22 Provides Three
Mechanisms for Incumbent
Protection
Sensing
Database Access
Specially Designed Beacon
One or more protection
mechanisms can be adopted
based on the regulatory domain
requirements.
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802.22 supports Time Division
Duplex (TDD) frame structure

IEEE 802.22 Frame Structure

Super-frame: 160 ms, Frame: 10 ms

Each frame consists of downlink
(DL) sub-frame, uplink (UL) subframe, and the Co-existence Beacon
Protocol (CBP) burst
Lengths of DL and UL sub-frames
can be adjusted .

Self Co-existence Window: BS

commands subscribers to send out
CBPs for 802.22
self co-existence CBP bursts
contain information about the backup
channel sets and sensing times
terrestrial geo-location and
whitespace device identification as
required by the regulatory domain
rules.
Co-existence Beacon Protocol (CBP) burst
used for 802.22 self co-existence and
terrestrial geo-location

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CBP

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IEEE 802.22 PHY Features

PHY Transport - 802.22 uses Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing (OFDM) as transport mechanism. Orthogonal Frequency
Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) is used in the UL

Modulation - QPSK, 16-QAM and 64-QAM supported

Coding Convolutional Code is Mandatory. Turbo, LDPC or Shortened
Block Turbo Code are Optional but recommended.
Pilot Pattern - Each OFDM / OFDMA symbol is divided into subchannels of 28 sub-carriers of which 4 are pilots. Pilot symbols are
inserted once every 7 sub-carriers. Pilots cycle through all 7 sub-carriers
over 7 symbol duration. No frequency domain interpolation is required.
Net Spectral Efficiency - 0.624 bits/s/Hz 3.12 bits/s/Hz
Spectral Mask - 802.22 has adopted the Spectral Mask requirements
proposed by FCC. (200 tap FIR filter may be needed for implementation).
PHY capacity
Mod.
Rate
1/2
2/3
QPSK
3/4
5/6
1/2
2/3
16QAM
3/4
5/6
1/2
2/3
64QAM
3/4
5/6

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Mbit/s bit/(s*Hz)
CP= 1/8
3.74
0.624
4.99
0.832
5.62
0.936
6.24
1.04
7.49
1.248
9.98
1.664
11.23
1.872
12.48
2.08
11.23
1.872
14.98
2.496
16.85
2.808
18.72
3.12

PHY performance: SNR (dB)

Mod.
Rate
SNR
1/2
4.3
2/3
6.1
QPSK
3/4
7.1
5/6
8.1
1/2
10.2
2/3
12.4
16QAM
3/4
13.5
5/6
14.8
1/2
15.6
2/3
18.3
64QAM
3/4
19.7
5/6
20.9
Note: includes phase noise: -80dBc/Hz at
1 kHz and 10 kHz and -105 dBc/Hz at
100 kHz

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IEEE 802.22 MAC Features

Connection-oriented MAC, establishes connection IDs and service flows which are dynamically created
QoS Various types of QoS services are supported (See below). ARQ supported. Uni-cast, Multi-cast and broadcast
services are supported.
Cognitive functionality
Dynamic and adaptive scheduling of quiet periods to allow the system to balance QoS requirements of users with
the need to quiet down the network to support spectrum sensing. Quiet periods range from 1 symbol (approx. 1/3
ms) to one super-frame
Subscribers can alert the BS, the presence of incumbents in a number of ways. Dedicated - Urgent Co-existence
Situation (UCS) messages or low priority MAC messages
BS can ask one or more subscribers to move to another channel in a number of ways using
160 ms
Frame Control Header (FCH)
or dedicated MAC messages
... Time
...
Superframe n-1
Superframe n
Superframe n+1
10 ms
frame 0

QoS

Application

UGS

VoIP, T1 / E1

rtPS

MPEG video
streaming

10 ms

10 ms
. . .

frame 1

frame 15

Quiet Period

Quiet Period

Intra-frame quiet period scheduling

160 ms

nrtPS

FTP

BE

E-mail

Contention

BW request etc.

...

Superframe n-1

Superframe n+1

...

Quiet Period
10 ms

10 ms
frame 0

10 ms
. . .

frame 1

frame 15

Quiet Period

Inter frame quiet period scheduling

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IEEE 802.22 Cognitive Radio Capability

Channel Set Management

Policies

Subscriber Registration
and Tracking

Spectrum Manager

Geo-location

Self Co-existence
Super-frame N+1 (16 Frames)

Super-frame N (16 Frames)

TV Channel
X Cell 1 Cell 2 Cell 3

Cell 3 Cell 1 Cell 2 Cell 1 Cell 1

Cell 2 Cell 3

time

Data Frames

Spectrum Sensing

Incumbent Database
Service

RF sensing performance

Probability of misdetection (Pmd)

100.0%

Incumbent

10.0%

Energy - 1dB Pfa=10% 5 ms

Energy - 0.5dB Pfa=10% 5 ms
Energy - 0dB Pfa=10% 5ms

1.0%

Thomson-Segment Pfa=10% 4 ms
I2R Pfa=0.1% 4ms
I2R Pfa= 1% 4ms
I2R Pfa=10% 4 ms
Qualcomm Field Pfa=10% 24 ms

Database

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Coexistence Beacon Windows

Qualcom Field Pfa=1% 24 ms

Thomson Field Pfa=10% 24 ms
Thomson Field Pfa=1% 24ms

0.1%
-26

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-24

-22

-20

-18

-16
-14
SNR (dB)

-12

-10

-8

-6

-4

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IEEE 802.22 Spectrum Sensing

DTV Detection Results based Cyclostationary

Feature Detection

TV and Wireless Microphone Protection Using Spectrum

Sensing
FCC R&O requires
DTV protection at -114 dBm in 6 MHz of bandwidth. This amounts to
an SNR of -19 dB for equivalent receiver noise figure of 11 dB and 22
dB safety margin at edge of coverage
Wireless microphone protection at -114 dBm in 200 kHz bandwidth.
This amounts to an SNR of -3 dB for equivalent. recceiver noise figure
of 11 dB.
Several blind and signal specific feature-based sensing schemes have
been proposed and thoroughly evaluated using TV Broadcaster supplied
over-the-air collected signals
Spectral correlation based sensing,
Time domain cyclostationarity,
Eigen value based sensing,
FFT based pilot sensing,
Higher order statistics based sensing, etc.

Pd = >99%, Pfa =
10%, -20dB

Wireless Microphone Beacon Sensing Results

-95

Wireless Microphone Protection Using Beacon (IEEE

802.22.1 Standard Nearly Complete)

-100

-105

Sensing threshold (dBm)

Many studies have suggested that FCC R&O target for wireless
microphones is not sufficient to protect wearable microphones
(where body attenuation of as much as 27dB is possible according to
the manufacturers)
802.22 has designed a beacon signal which will be transmitted from
wireless microphone base stations with 250 mW (as compared to 10
mW for microphones). These beacon signals consist of repeated
pseudo-noise (PN) sequences and occupy a bandwidth of 78 kHz.
Security features are provided for beacon authentication

1-

En
e

rgy

de
tec
ti

on
TG1
certificate

-110

-114 dBm

TG1
signature
TG1 information
(FEC encoded)

-115

8-chip spreading
sequence

-120

1-E

nerg
y

dete

-125

ctio

n co
rrela

Sync and index

ted

on s

prea
d

sequ

ence

-130
0.1

10

Minimum sensing time (ms)

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IEEE 802.22 Geo-location

...

Satellite-based geo-location

Frequency

Requires GPS antenna at each terminal

NMEA 0183 data string used to report to BS
Poor accuracy in Northern hemispheres.

Signal Processing Flow for the Terrestrial

Geo-location

OFDM carrier set

2048 carriers BPSK
modulated by PN-sequence

PN-sequence

IDFT
I

Carrier phase reversal

based on the PN-sequence

Terrestrially-based geo-location:

Time

...
I

2048 time domain samples

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Frequency
Frequency domain response of a
Dirac pulse distorted by channel
2048 carriers

Time
Cyclic prefix

Signal transmitted
to terminal 2

IDFT

Real

Convolution with the

channel impulse response
Q

Channel impulse response

relative to the sampling time

2048 I&Q samples at sampling

period (i.e., every 180 degrees)

times
Sampling

Ima
gina
ry

Time

2048 samples

Signal received
by the user terminal

I
Real

A new scheme has been proposed requiring no additional

hardware and using the characteristics and capabilities of
the 802.22 standard.
Normal BS-CPE ranging process: provides coarse ranging
to an accuracy of 147.8 ns (44.3 m)
Extended BS-CPE ranging process: augments the accuracy
of the ranging process to 1 ns (0.3 m) by a more accurate
scheme using the complex channel impulse response
received at the CPE (Vernier-1) and at the BS (Vernier-2)
Extended CPE-CPE ranging process: new scheme using
the preamble of the CBP burst transmitted by a CPE and
captured by another CPE in the surrounding area to acquire
the distance between CPEs with a high level of accuracy
(Vernier-3)
Off-line geo-location calculation: All the information
acquired at the CPEs is transmitted to the BS which can
delegate the calculation of the CPE geo-location to a
server. Calculation is based on usual triangulation using
some CPEs as waypoints.
Submission

Y/X

Q
I

0
Im
aginary

DFT
I

Y
Frequency

Precise tim
e sam
ple

OFDM carrier set

distorted by channel
2048 carriers

High resolution band

limited impulse response
(e.g., every 1 degree)

...

Complex
correlation

-1
1

2048 x 180 I&Q samples

at every degree

Channel impulse response

relative to the sampling time

Amplitude1
Amplitude2
Amplitude3
Amplitude4
etc...

Delay 1
Delay 2
Delay 3
Delay 4

List of echo amplitudes and delays

relative to the terminal 2 sampling time
Resolution= sampling period / 180

Signal sent back to terminal 1

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IEEE 802.22 Self Co-existence

Requires that information on
Spectrum Etiquette
On Demand Frame
operating, backup and candidate
(Enough channels available)
channels of each cell is shared
Contention
amongst WRAN cells:

(Two or more cells need to co-exist on

the same channel)

exchanged by CBP bursts.

Primary user
appears

Number x represents operating channel

Number y represents backup channel
Number z (double underline) represents candidate channel

Self-coexistence window
(SCW) does not have to
be allocated at each
frame.

Super-frame N+1 (16 Frames)

Super-frame N (16 Frames)

TV Channel
Cell 1
X

Cell 2

Cell 3

Cell 3

Cell 1

Cell 2

Cell 1

Cell 1

Cell 2

Cell 3

time

Data Frames

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Coexistence Beacon Windows

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IEEE 802.22 Security Sub-layer 1 (Non-Cognitive)

Confidentiality and Privacy AES (128) GCM is
used for encryption and authentication
Network Authorization - RSA and ECC based X.509
certificates are used for mutual authentication /
network entry authorization.
Integrity AES-GCM is used to compute Integrity
Check Vector (ICV). PN sequence numbers are
appended to each packet.
Authentication Signals such as wireless
microphone beacon and CBP are authenticated using
ECC based digital signatures. No encryption is
provided for these packets
Key Management - Secure Control and Management
Protocol is used for key management.
Management Messages All management messages
except for the broadcast, initial ranging and basic
CID are protected.
Device Security - Trusted Computing Group,
Trusted Platform Module specifications are
recommended to enable tamper-proof capability for
hardware and software.

Submission

Security Sub-layer 1

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IEEE 802.22 Security Sub-layer 2 (Cognitive)

Spectrum Availability Spectrum Sensing used to ensure spectrum
availability for primary users.
Various types of signal specific and feature based
sensing algorithms have been included into the
standard
Standard recommends sensing algorithms to
determine the signal type (Signal Classification)
Collaborative Sensing - The group in general thinks
that collaborative sensing will be useful. FCC R&O
requires OR rule based collaborative sensing.
Correlation with Geo-location Information
Closely tied to collaborative sensing. It tries to
cross check the spectral footprint of the detected
signal based on location of the sensor

Security Sub-layer 2

Spectrum Access Authorization

BS is capable of de-authorizing a subscriber at any
time. Sensing and incumbent database service used
for spectrum access authorization
Capability Check The Spectrum Manager (SM) is
capable of prohibiting a subscriber from registering
if it does not have adequate sensing capabilities.

Signal
classification
and policy
based
behavior
control of the
802.22 devices

Radio Behavior Control

IEEE 802.22 is policy driven. Policies are rulebased.
Submission

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References
IEEE 802.22 Working Group Website www.ieee802.org/22
J. Mitola, Cognitive Radio: An Integrated Agent Architecture for Software Defined
Radio, Ph. D. Thesis, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Spring 2000.
Gerald Chouinard, Communications Research Center, 802.22 Overview presentation to
the 802 Whitespaces Study Group https://mentor.ieee.org/802-sg-whitespace/dcn/09/sgwhitespace-09-0058-00-0000-802-22-presentation-to-ecsg.ppt
IEEE 802.22 Draftv3.0 Members only Documents of the IEEE 802.22 Working Group
(www.ieee802.org/22)
Other Contributions to the IEEE 802.22 Standard (www.ieee802.org/22)

Submission

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