Distance- and traffic-aware channel assignment in cognitive radio networks

Haythem Bany Salameh, Marwan Krunz, Ossama Younis

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Abstract

The scarcity of unlicensed spectrum has triggered great interest in cognitive radio (CR) technology as a means to improve spectrum utilization. An important challenge in this domain is how to enable nodes in a CR network (CRN) to access the medium opportunistically. Multi-channel MAC protocols for typical ad hoc networks assume that frequency channels are adjacent and that there are no strict constraints on the transmission power. However, a CRN may occupy a wide range of frequencies. In addition, a power mask is often enforced on the transmission power of a CR user to avoid corrupting the transmissions of spectrum-licensed primary-radio (PR) users. Obviously, CR users operating in different licensed bands will be subject to different PR-to-CR interference conditions. To avoid unnecessary blocking of CR transmissions under these constraints, we propose a novel distance-dependent MAC protocol for CRNs (DDMAC) that attempts to maximize the CRN throughput. DDMAC introduces a novel suboptimal probabilistic channel assignment algorithm that exploits the dependence between the signal's attenuation model and the transmission distance while considering the traffic profile. The protocol allows a pair of CR users to communicate on a channel that may not be optimal from one user's perspective, but that allows more transmissions to take place simultaneously, especially under moderate to high traffic loads. Simulation results indicate that compared to typical multi-channel CSMA-based protocols, DDMAC decreases the connection blocking rate of CR transmission requests by up to 30%, which improves the network throughput at no additional cost in energy consumption. On the whole, our protocol is simple yet effective. It can be incorporated into existing multi-channel systems with little extra processing overhead.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2008 5th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON
Pages10-18
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event5th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON 2008 - San Francisco, CA, United States
Duration: Jun 16 2008Jun 20 2008

Publication series

Name2008 5th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON

Other

Other5th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON 2008
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco, CA
Period6/16/086/20/08

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Communication

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