Month: December 2015

700 MHz modelling

30/12/2015
Project
Client: Ofcom
Author(s): Richard Rudd
Broadcasting Spectrum management Radio engineering Technology and infrastructure

We undertook a number of modelling studies for Ofcom in 2014-2015, to inform their policy on technical conditions relating to the release of 700 MHz broadcast spectrum for mobile use.  The most likely band-plan involved the user equipment (UE) handsets transmitting at frequencies immediately above the remaining broadcast allocation, with base stations assigned spectrum higher[…]

Measuring interference to DTT at 800 MHz

30/12/2015
Project
Client: Digital Mobile Spectrum Ltd
Author(s): Richard Rudd
Broadcasting Spectrum management Radio engineering

We have provided specialist technical advice to ‘Digital Mobile Spectrum Limited’, the UK body charged with managing issues of LTE to DTT interference at 800 MHz LTE. This work has involved a number of strands including;  the development of algorithms and computer models for the site-specific prediction of interference from mobile base stations to domestic DTT receivers;[…]