After reviewing several Ofcom TVWS operational requirements documents, it is my current understanding that Ofcom operation in TVWS includes a use case where the slave device's location may be included in the available spectrum request sent via the master device to the database. It appears that the current PAWS protocol specification (version 6) does not support inclusion of the slave device's location as a parameter in requests, and furthermore the PAWS specification assumes by slave definition that slave devices are without geo-location capability.
To support Ofcom's use case that includes slave device location, I would like to suggest that we consider adding an optional parameter for "Slave Device Location", and update the slave definition to support slave devices that include geo-location capability. The new "Slave Device Location" parameter could be added directly to the AVAIL_SPECTRUM_REQ message format, or added via another ETSI-specific parameter. Thank you, Don
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