Special Temporary Authority application - Applicant Name
Name of Applicant:
Regents of the University of California
Special Temporary Authority application - Best Contact
First Name:
Carl
Last Name:
Chun
Phone Number:
408-603-7328
Title:
Researcher
Special Temporary Authority application - Certification
Applicant certification
Neither the applicant nor any other party to the application is subject to a denial of Federal benefits that includes FCC benefits pursuant to Section 5301 of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, 21 U.S.C. Section 862, because of a conviction for possession or distribution of a controlled substance. The applicant hereby waives any claim to the use of any particular frequency or electromagnetic spectrum as against the regulatory power of the United States because of the prvious use of the same, whether by license or otherwise, and requests authorization in accordance with this application. (See Section 304 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.) The applicant acknowledges that all statements made in this application and attached exhibits are considered material representations, and that all the exhibits part hereof and are incorporated herein as if set out in full in this application; undersigned certifies that all statements in this application are true, complete and correct to the best of his/her knowledge and belief and are made in good faith. Applicant certifies that construction of the station would NOT be an action which is likely to have a significant environmental effect. See the Commission's Rules, 47 CFR1.1301-1.1319.
Date:
2008-06-26 00:00:00.0
Signature of Applicant (Authorized person filing form):
Carl Chun
Title of Applicant (if any):
Researcher
Special Temporary Authority application - Explanation
Please explain in the area below why an STA is necessary:
Our research involves measuring and modeling the wireless channel in mobile to mobile vehicular environments in the 700-800 MHz band. Currently this part of the UHF spectrum is licensed for commercial television broadcast. We wish to transmit and receive test signals from moving vehicles in unused UHF channels. Based upon our test location and the stations broadcasting nearby, the tests will be performed in the unused channels of 67 and 68 (788-800 MHz).
Special Temporary Authority application - Information
Class of Station:
MO
Nature of Service:
Experimental
Special Temporary Authority application - Initial values - Purpose of Operation
Please explain the purpose of operation:
The reallocation of the 700-800 MHz broadcast frequencies has opened up the spectrum to new uses for public safety and possible open access ?whitespace? applications. Vehicular communications will comprise a portion of both public safety and open access traffic in the reallocated spectrum. The vehicular environment presents a number of challenges that must be understood and appropriately managed in order to enable reliable wireless communications. Impairments such as multi-path, frequency selective fading, and short coherence times in vehicular communications are much more severe than fixed point to point broadcast situations. We propose to characterize a 6 MHz channel in the 700-800 MHz spectrum in vehicular environments. The experiments will be conducted in real road and city environments. Test equipment will be placed in a transmit vehicle and a receive vehicle. Measurements will be conducted while moving through a variety of environments and differential GPS will be used to accurately determine location. We cross-link transmitter and receiver logs offline to provide an accurate measurement of vehicle locations and velocities for each transmission. The transmitter will broadcast a signal through a roof mounted omni-directional antenna. The sounding waveform will be generated by laboratory signal generator and passed through a power amplifier to provide 20dBm of power to the antenna. The waveform consists of a maximal-length, pseudorandom (MLS) {±1} bit sequence pre-generated in Matlab and modulated via BPSK. The MLS is 511 bits in length, and is generated at a rate of 6 MHz. In the waveform, the data sequence is followed by a 511-bit null period and repeated. The receiver will collect the waveform with a roof mounted omni-directional antenna and digitize the data using a RF signal analyzer. The data is stored on a laptop for post processing.
Special Temporary Authority application - Manufacturer
Equipment 1 Experimental
No
Equipment 1 Manufacturer
Aeroflex Signal Generator
Equipment 1 Model Number
3416
Equipment 1 No. Of Units
1
Equipment 2 Experimental
No
Equipment 2 Manufacturer
Mini-Circuits RF Amplifier
Equipment 2 Model Number
TIA-1000-1R8
Equipment 2 No. Of Units
1
Equipment 3 Experimental
No
Equipment 3 Manufacturer
PCTEL Maxrad Antenna
Equipment 3 Model Number
MLPV700
Equipment 3 No. Of Units
1
Special Temporary Authority application - Purpose of Operation
Please explain the purpose of operation:
The reallocation of the 700-800 MHz broadcast frequencies has opened up the spectrum to new uses for public safety and possible open access whitespace applications. Vehicular communications will comprise a portion of both public safety and open access traffic in the reallocated spectrum. The vehicular environment presents a number of challenges that must be understood and appropriately managed in order to enable reliable wireless communications. Impairments such as multi-path, frequency selective fading, and short coherence times in vehicular communications are much more severe than fixed point to point broadcast situations. We propose to characterize a 6 MHz channel in the 700-800 MHz spectrum in vehicular environments. The experiments will be conducted in real road and city environments. Test equipment will be placed in a transmit vehicle and a receive vehicle. Measurements will be conducted while moving through a variety of environments and differential GPS will be used to accurately determine location. We cross-link transmitter and receiver logs offline to provide an accurate measurement of vehicle locations and velocities for each transmission. The transmitter will broadcast a signal through a roof mounted omni-directional antenna. The sounding waveform will be generated by laboratory signal generator and passed through a power amplifier to provide 20dBm of power to the antenna. The waveform consists of a maximal-length, pseudorandom (MLS) {±1} bit sequence pre-generated in Matlab and modulated via BPSK. The MLS is 511 bits in length, and is generated at a rate of 6 MHz. In the waveform, the data sequence is followed by a 511-bit null period and repeated. The receiver will collect the waveform with a roof mounted omni-directional antenna and digitize the data using a RF signal analyzer. The data is stored on a laptop for post processing.
Special Temporary Authority application - Requested Period of Operation