Ben,
Not certain that this fully answers your question but the FCC doesn't allow blocking of Wi-Fi by those wanting to drive uses to "pay" providers. E.g. hotel chains.
BR,
Mike
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Yes, and when operating under FCC Part 15.247 transmitting specifically to block other users from accessing the band is prohibited. is this a scheme applied only to licensed spectrum or is there a rationalization
under which one can justify such blocking as not blocking?
Ben
On 3/15/2016 11:55 PM, Geoff Thompson wrote:
Steve-
I would assert that just transmitting carrier into a channel to "reserve" it or block others from using it is a bad idea.
IF ... there is going to be a system where a non-payload transmission is allowed to "reserve a channel" then there should be (at a minimum) some source identification associated with such a transmission. That, of course, would require that it
be in a well-known format (presumably regulated)
Geoff Thompson
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Andrew,
I went through your document and put together a few comments.
Regards,
Steve
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Comments
Item 1
- When energy detection is used to determine if the channel is busy, then energy in the channel is the only way I know of to reserve the channel. Now of course any method of reserving the channel could be considered a method of blocking others from
using the channel.
- You may want to consider changing “blocking others from using the channel” to “reserving the channel”
- I would agree that this is likely less efficient than a short packet to reserve the channel, but it serves the same purpose. So it is really an efficiency issue.
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