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    Open and regionalised spectrum repositories for emerging countries
    (2016) Andres Arcia Moret; Arjuna Sathiaseelan; Marco Zenaro; Freddy Rondón; Ermanno Pietrosémoli; David L. Johnson
    TV White Spaces have recently been proposed as an alternative to alleviate the spectrum crunch, characterised by the need to reallocate frequency bands to accommodate the ever-growing demand for wireless communications. In this article, we discuss the motivations and challenges for collecting spectrum measurements in developing regions and discuss a scalable system for the crowds to gather and provide access to White Spaces information through open and regionalised repositories. We further discuss two relevant aspects. Firstly, we propose a cooperative mechanism for sensing spectrum availability using a detector approach. Secondly, we propose a strategy (and an architecture) on the database side to implement spectrum governance. Other aspects of the work include discussion of an extensive measurement campaign showing a number of white spaces in developing regions, an overview of our experience on low-cost spectrum analysers, and the architecture of Zebra−RFO, an application for processing crowd-sourced spectrum data.