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    • Distributed Sensing of Radio Spectrum Occupancy Amid COVID-19

    Metadata Updated: September 30, 2025

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) performed a targeted campaign of measurements of channel power and occupancy rate in the radio spectrum. This is the dataset that resulted from that effort.Measurements were performed in 13 residential sites after a rapid engineering development effort, followed by spot measurements at a local hospital. The study targeted radio frequency allocations that support key wireless data infrastructure. These included the cellular network bands below 1 GHz, and unlicensed bands that support wireless local-area network (WLAN) and wireless personal area network (WPAN) traffic in 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. The principal test locations were the home telework sites of NIST research staff, postdoctoral researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, and summer high school interns. Measurements continued where possible from late spring in 2020 until the autumn of 2021.The resulting data are released here in the following forms:1) Time series of band power, integrated on 4-MHz bandwidth in 0.5 ms bins;2) Time series of band power, denoised to remove average additive noise produced by the receiver;3) Occupancy durations computed from the denoised band power time series;4) Histograms of band power readings computed from denoised band power time series; and5) Diagnostic network profiling data that indicates PHY characteristics of cellular and WLAN signals.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Metadata Created Date September 30, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025
    Data Update Frequency irregular

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    Harvested from Commerce Non Spatial Data.json Harvest Source

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 30, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025
    Publisher National Institute of Standards and Technology
    Maintainer
    Identifier ark:/88434/mds2-2553
    Language en
    Data Last Modified 2022-04-20 00:00:00
    Category Infrastructure, Resilience, Metrology:Electrical/electromagnetic metrology, Electronics:Sensors, Advanced Communications:Wireless (RF)
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency irregular
    Bureau Code 006:55
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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    Harvest Source Id bce99b55-29c1-47be-b214-b8e71e9180b1
    Harvest Source Title Commerce Non Spatial Data.json Harvest Source
    Homepage URL https://data.nist.gov/od/id/mds2-2553
    License https://www.nist.gov/open/license
    Program Code 006:045
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash fa4062b13492c97dcb79be1fc07e08bda5d8862787651d201859f36a74df05aa
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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