There is an interesting online video lecture at Videolectures.net that is also talking about Whitespace Devices and discussing the battle between FCC and Broadcasters against the Whitespace Device movement. It is interesting that Microsoft appears to be a good-guy in this area. It is the big $$ broadcasting companies and the regulators that are opposing the WSD because they fear any competition.
Sascha Meinrath (of the New America Foundation) gave an interesting talk on this topic and on how hard it is to fight the capital interests in order to make it come through.
There is also a very interesting part on White Space Devices, basically radio devices that would use any available frequency in order to communicate and release that frequency and hop onto another one immediately if the detect someone else transmitting on it. They have presented this to the FCC for the test, which of course was extremely unfair (out of specs) and the technology refused. Some more on his site http://www.saschameinrath.com/.
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It is the big $$ broadcasting companies and the regulators that are opposing the WSD because they fear any competition.
Check out the lecture at http://videolectures.net/kiblix07_meinrath_wtrr/ (the WSD part starts at around 42:00)
http://videolectures.net/kiblix07_meinrath_wtrr/
There is also a very interesting part on White Space Devices, basically radio devices that would use any available frequency in order to communicate and release that frequency and hop onto another one immediately if the detect someone else transmitting on it. They have presented this to the FCC for the test, which of course was extremely unfair (out of specs) and the technology refused. Some more on his site http://www.saschameinrath.com/.
We are running a http://videolectures.net/ science video site with over 2500 science videos and presentations mostly related to Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Semantic Web, etc.
If you click it right now, please also check http://videolectures.net/site/live/ where live webcast of the Machine Learning Summer School which is going on right now (http://www.mlss.cc/tuebingen07/).
And please don't put it on the slashdot front page (i.e. slashdot-it) just jet, because the server probably won't stand that much load (we'll be upgrading servers soon).