Implementing Protocol to Access White-Space databases on smart set-top box

In television white space networks, secondary users are mandatory to query an accredited geo-location spectrum database (GSDB) in order to determine the vacant channels or white spaces. The recent developments of the Protocol to Access White Spaces (PAWS) by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) have proposed to standardize communication between the GSDB and white space devices. To enable efficient sharing of spectrum, white spaces devices (WSDs) and their related restrictions, the mechanism or channel selection remain open issues in research. In this paper, we proposed use of PAWS and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) to address the communication between the GSDB and WSDs to enable optimal channel selection decisions in the settop box making it a smart set-top box.