TY - JOUR
T1 - Designing and deploying a building-wide cognitive radio network testbed
AU - Newman, Timothy R.
AU - Hasan, S. M.Shajedul
AU - DePoy, Daniel
AU - Bose, Tamal
AU - Reed, Jeffrey H.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the Office of Naval Research DURIP grant N00014-09-1-0767 and the Virginia Tech Institute for Critical and Applied Sciences at Virginia Tech.
PY - 2010/9
Y1 - 2010/9
N2 - Wireless communication technology is constantly advancing with the primary objective being to improve the quality of service for the end user. Cognitive radio is a technology capable of advancing wireless communications to the next generation of intelligent devices. Integrating cognition into wireless applications such as dynamic spectrum access, radio resource management, wireless distributed computing, and even traditional protocol stacks has already been shown to provide benefits related to the communications quality of service. The majority of cognitive radio related research has been limited to theoretical frameworks and simulations or in a few cases, demonstrating prototype DSA devices on a small scale. In order to continue advancing in this area, larger-scale experiments that are reproducible and able to be moved beyond theoretical simulations are required. Virginia Tech has built a testbed for software-defined and cognitive radio related research for the purpose of rapid next-generation communication system prototyping using a medium scale size network of flexible wireless nodes. In this article we present the details of the development, design decision rationale, and deployment of this testbed in hopes that it will be both used by the research community, and duplicated and improved in order to further the development of the many different facets of cognitive radio research.
AB - Wireless communication technology is constantly advancing with the primary objective being to improve the quality of service for the end user. Cognitive radio is a technology capable of advancing wireless communications to the next generation of intelligent devices. Integrating cognition into wireless applications such as dynamic spectrum access, radio resource management, wireless distributed computing, and even traditional protocol stacks has already been shown to provide benefits related to the communications quality of service. The majority of cognitive radio related research has been limited to theoretical frameworks and simulations or in a few cases, demonstrating prototype DSA devices on a small scale. In order to continue advancing in this area, larger-scale experiments that are reproducible and able to be moved beyond theoretical simulations are required. Virginia Tech has built a testbed for software-defined and cognitive radio related research for the purpose of rapid next-generation communication system prototyping using a medium scale size network of flexible wireless nodes. In this article we present the details of the development, design decision rationale, and deployment of this testbed in hopes that it will be both used by the research community, and duplicated and improved in order to further the development of the many different facets of cognitive radio research.
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U2 - 10.1109/MCOM.2010.5560594
DO - 10.1109/MCOM.2010.5560594
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77956377841
SN - 0163-6804
VL - 48
SP - 106
EP - 112
JO - IEEE Communications Magazine
JF - IEEE Communications Magazine
IS - 9
M1 - 5560594
ER -