Reach

Sponsors and Collaborators: Horizon 2020, European Commission

Time Frame: Jan 2016 – Dec 2020

Status – Active

The REACH project aims to develop solution to avail the provision for high speed Internet access in rural India using unlicensed TV white space spectrum and designing the Geolocation database for it. With the wide increase of population and use of Internet in India, the efficient utilization and management of spectrum is needed. The utilization of TV white space spectrum is emerging as a best alternative to fulfill this need since there are many unused channel in TV spectrum due to migration from analog to digital transmission technology.

At IIIT-B, we are working on Distributed Algorithms for Spectrum Assignment for White Space Devices. Spectrum assignment for devices in white-space spectrum is challenging due to the fact that, white-space spectrum has temporal and spatial variations and is most often fragmented. We have created an autonomous agent model for spectrum assignment of white space devices at a given location. Each white space device (WSD) acts autonomously out of self-interest, choosing a strategy from its bag of strategies. It obtains a payoff based on its choice and choices made by all other agents. WSDs interact with each other using a central shared memory located at a “Master” device. Based on payoffs received by different strategies, WSDs evolve their strategic profile over time. This has the effect of “demographic changes” in the population. The system is said to have reached a state of equilibrium (or, in a state of evolutionary best-response) when the demographic profile stabilises. The system is trained on different load profiles to compute their respective evolutionary best responses.

• Project Members
  • Chaitali Diwan
  • Prasoon Dwivedi
  • Rajat Dutt Sharma
• Past Members
  • Sweety Agrawal
  • Bala Murali Krishna Uppalapati
  • Prateek Goyal
  • Sweta Kumari
  • Madhurika Jain
  • Vishal Singhal

Project Outcomes

1. Chaitali Diwan. Autonomous Spectrum Assignment of White Space devices. MTech thesis. June 2016.
2. Chaitali Diwan, Srinath Srinivasa, Bala Murali Krishna. Autonomous Spectrum Assignment of White Space Devices. Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks. Lisbon, Portugal. September 2017.
3. Simulation dashboard for autonomous spectrum allocation algorithm

Other Relevant Links

• REACH Project main website
• Project presentations from member institutions