TOURNAMENT ARENA SIMULATION FOR A WIRELESS 'ECOSYSTEM' IN UNLICENSED BANDS

OF THE THESIS Tournament Arena Simulation for a Wireless ‘Ecosystem’ in Unlicensed Bands by Kinjal Desai Thesis Director: Professor Roy D. Yates The FCC has been allocating sections of the radio spectrum as unlicensed bands over the period of last decade with the motivation of promoting diversity and novelty of wireless systems, services and technologies. The most recent in this series is the Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII), a 300 MHz of radio spectrum at 5 GHz, providing promising avenues for modern multimedia applications in 3G systems and beyond. No license is required to operate in the unlicensed band, though there could be some minimal rules that the systems need to conform to. Due to the significant cost involved in bandwidth acquisition through licensing, the unlicensed bands provide an attractive alternative to service providers in terms of time and cost of development and deployment. This latitude, however comes at the price of enhanced mutual interference