Development of spectrum monitoring tool for Malaysia
Rapid growth on new technologies and services in mobile communication leads to stronger competition in spectrum access. As a developed country, Malaysia is also affected by this trend. With the increasing numbers of subscribers, the easier solution for mobile service providers to improve the cov...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/37270/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/37270/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/37270/1/06805884%281%29.pdf |
| Summary: | Rapid growth on new technologies and services in
mobile communication leads to stronger competition in spectrum
access. As a developed country, Malaysia is also affected by this
trend. With the increasing numbers of subscribers, the easier
solution for mobile service providers to improve the coverage
area is by installing new base station (BS). Nevertheless, this
increases the possibilities of interference among BS. Thus,
spectrum monitoring is needed to maintain the efficiency of the
network and avoid interference. However, the commercial
spectrum monitoring tool is not a cost effective enough in the fast
pace changing mobile communication environment. Hence, the
need for development of a low cost radio frequency (RF)
spectrum monitoring tool to identified and monitor interference.
This paper aims to highlight the approaches taken in developing
an open-source spectrum management tool for Malaysian
authority. The simple low cost tool is capable to identified
possible interference among BS in Global System for Mobile
Communications (GSM), 2G and Universal Mobile
Telecommunications System (IMT), 3G networks as well as
capable to display BS cell coverage area. |
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