Coexistence protocol design for autonomous decision-making systems in TV white space

In this paper, we present a coexistence protocol design to provide coexistence solution among dissimilar or independently operated autonomous decision-making networks in a wireless communication environment over, specifically but not limited to, TV white space (TVWS) frequency bands. The designed coexistence protocol for the information service has three main functionalities: (1) To collect basic information of subscribed TVWS networks; (2) To support generating neighbor lists for the TVWS networks based on the geography information or propagation parameters; (3) To provide the necessary information for TVWS networks to make coexistence decisions. Both theoretical analysis and simulation results shows that the designed coexistence protocol ensures harmonious communication among multiple dissimilar networks and finally achieves coexistence over a particular area with a limited white space channel resource.