On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:19:56 -0400, lsmyer wrote in
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Saw this on Drudge just now.
http://tinyurl.com/2me5h8


http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=197005451
Microsoft Preps Cognitive Radio Prototype For Use With TV Spectrum
"Every market has empty television channels," explains Scott Blake
Harris, an attorney representing the unnamed coalition and a
managing partner of the law firm of Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis
LLP. "The reason is if they're too close to each other they
interfere. This coalition believes you can use low-power wireless
devices in those empty channels without causing any interference."


http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/r...t=6518724 937
Cognitive Radio diagram...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_radio
Cognitive radio is a paradigm for wireless communication in which
either a network or a wireless node changes its transmission or
reception parameters to communicate efficiently without
interfering with licensed users. This alteration of parameters is
based on the active monitoring of several factors in the external
and internal radio environment, such as radio frequency spectrum,
user behaviour and network state.

http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~mitr...RadioFinal.pdf

http://sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=...7483414B7F0000
http://www.fcc.gov/oet/cognitiveradio/
http://www.cotsjournalonline.com/hom....php?id=100206
http://www.ti-wmc.nl/AAF.html
http://www.eng.usf.edu/wcsp/cognitive_radio_links.html
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.j...cleID=18700443