Reliability of a radio environment Map: Case of spatial interpolation techniques

Recent advances in radio environmental mapping enable novel, practical and efficient cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access solutions. A crucial aspect of such solutions is to ensure the reliability of the constructed Radio Environmental Maps (REMs). Especially important is the accurate and up-to-date Radio Interference Field (RIF) estimation based on distributed spectrum use measurements. This paper analyzes the use of spatial interpolation techniques that allow robust, yet sufficiently reliable, RIF estimation from a limited number of field measurements. Several spatial interpolation techniques based on Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) are analyzed and compared in terms of reliability bounds of the interpolation errors for an indoor environment. Performance evaluation using REM prototype implementation and a wireless testbed shows that the spatial interpolation techniques can provide a robust and reliable RIF estimation within the entire REM concept.

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