Office
of Spectrum Management
Institute for Telecommunication Sciences
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CONTENTS
Public Meeting on 1/31/01 UWB Final Report NTIA Master Plan ITS UWB Measurement Plan |
A Master Plan for Developing Measurement Methods, Characterizing the Signals and Estimating Their Effects on Existing Systems This plan describes an approach to developing accurate, repeatable, and practical methods for characterizing the very narrow pulses (and pulse trains) of ultra-wideband (UWB) systems. The purpose of this characterization is to provide the information necessary to estimate or measure the potential for UWB systems to interfere with existing (narrowband, channelized, band-limited, and wideband) radio communications or sensing systems. The plan will incorporate tasks undertaken at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA's) Office of Spectrum Management (OSM) in Washington, NTIA's Institute of Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) in Boulder, Colorado and the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) also in Boulder, Colorado, with ITS as the focal point. The plan will be closely coordinated with the spectrum management community, the users' communities associated with the potentially affected systems and the UWB developers. |
