Opportunistic Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio Based on Channel Switching Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • This paper investigates the performance of a cognitive radio transceiver that can monitor multiple channels and opportunistically use any one of them should it be available. In our work, we propose and compare two different opportunistic channel access schemes. The first scheme applies when the secondary user (SU) has access to only one channel. The second scheme applies when the SU has access to multiple channels but can at a given time monitor and access only one channel. Two switching strategies, namely the switch and examine and the switch and stay strategies, are proposed. For these proposed access schemes, we investigate their performance by deriving the analytical expression of the novel metric of the average access duration and the average waiting time and based on these two metrics a time average SU throughput formula is proposed to predict the performance of the secondary cognitive system.

name of conference

  • Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks

published proceedings

  • 2012 7TH INTERNATIONAL ICST CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE RADIO ORIENTED WIRELESS NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS (CROWNCOM)

author list (cited authors)

  • Gaaloul, F., Yang, H., Radaydeh, R. M., & Alouini, M.

citation count

  • 2

complete list of authors

  • Gaaloul, Fakhreddine||Yang, Hong-Chuan||Radaydeh, Redha M||Alouini, Mohamed-Slim

publication date

  • October 2012