TV White Space – The First Step Towards Better Utilization of Frequency Spectrum

Ser Wah Oh is the Head of the White Space Communications Department at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore. He is also the co-founder and co-chair of the Singapore White Spaces Pilot Group, co-chair of Singapore TVWS Task Force, and member of Singapore Telecom Standards Advisory Committee. He previously led a team to contribute to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) TVWS field trial in 2008 that helped to shape the TVWS landscape today. Yugang Ma is a Senior Scientist and the Group Leader for White Space Research in the White Space Communications Department at I2R. His research areas cover CDMA, OFDM, UWB, mmWave, TVWS systems, synchronization, interference suppression, positioning, and antenna technologies. Dr. Ma was a Distinguished Engineer of Sony Corporation and has won 8 patent invention awards of Sony Electronics. He is also a member of Singapore TVWS Task Force. Ming-Hung Tao is a Research Scientist in the White Space Communications Department at I2R. Before joining I2R, he was an Assistant Manager at Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan. He is an experienced delegate in IEEE (WiMAX) and 3GPP (RAN2) standard meetings. He also has rich experience on developing MAC and network protocols for various wireless technologies including LTE, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, ZigBee, and TV White Space. Edward Peh was a Research Scientist in the White Space Communications Department at I2R. He is now working with the Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies, Singapore.