Recommendation ITU-R SM.1880-2 (09/2017) Spectrum occupancy measurements and evaluation Foreword Policy on Intellectual Property Right (IPR) Scope Keywords Annex 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction 2 Definitions 3 Requirements 3.1 Equipment 3.2 Site considerations 3.3 Time related parameters 3.4 Accuracy, statistical confidence level and required number of samples 3.5 Considerations on occupancy measurements 3.5.1 Emission identification 3.5.2 Monitoring mobile transmissions 3.5.3 Propagation 3.6 Presentation and analysis of collected data 3.6.1 Representative example of field strength used to discriminate between different users 3.6.2 Representation of frequency band occupancy by percentage 3.6.3 Representation of frequency band occupancy by colours Annex 2 Determination of required samples for different sampling methods TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Sampling methods 1.1 Dependent sampling 1.2 Independent sampling 2 Calculation of the minimum required samples 2.1 Independent sampling 2.2 Dependent sampling