Currently, the radio spectrum is statically allocated and divided between licensed and unlicensed frequencies. This results in its inefficient usage. Cognitive Radio (CR) is a recent paradigm which aims at addressing this inefficiency. It allows unlicensed users to opportunistically access vacant licensed frequency bands, as long as any harmful interference to incumbent users is avoided. In this context, providing appropriate medium access control (MAC) protocols is a core issue. However, the existing proposals omit relevant issues, are too complex, or are based on unrealistic assumptions in practical terms. Therefore, in this paper, we propose and analyze, through simulation, what we intend to be a really practical CR MAC protocol for distributed (i.e., ad-hoc) multi-hop CR scenarios, with high variability in terms of the availability of vacant frequency bands in time and space. Evaluation results confirm that the proposed approach, designated as CoSBT MAC, can result in relevant benefits.
Keywords
Cognitive Radio, Medium Access Control, Cooperative Sensing, Multi-hop Ad-hoc Networks
Subject
Cognitive Radio
Conference
10th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications, WWIC 2012, island of Santorini, Greece, June 2012
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Year 2017 : 1 citations
Zhong, W., Chen, K., & Liu, X. (2017). Joint optimal energy-efficient cooperative spectrum sensing and transmission in cognitive radio. China Communications, 14(1), 98-110.
Year 2016 : 1 citations
X. Liu, K. Q. Chen, and J. H. Yan, “A novel weighed cooperative bandwidth spectrum sensing for spectrum occupancy of cognitive radio network”, Journal of Central South University, vol. 23, n.º 7, pp. 1709-1718, 2016.
