Computer Science – Networking and Internet Architecture
Scientific paper
2009-07-23
Computer Science
Networking and Internet Architecture
12 pages, 8 figures, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Scientific paper
We consider the design of cognitive Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols enabling a secondary (unlicensed) transmitter-receiver pair to communicate over the idle periods of a set of primary (licensed) channels. More specifically, we propose cognitive MAC protocols optimized for both slotted and un-slotted primary networks. For the slotted structure, the objective is to maximize the secondary throughput while maintaining synchronization between the secondary pair and not causing interference to the primary network. Our investigations differentiate between two sensing scenarios. In the first, the secondary transmitter is capable of sensing all the primary channels, whereas it senses only a subset of the primary channels in the second scenario. In both cases, we propose blind MAC protocols that efficiently learn the statistics of the primary traffic on-line and asymptotically achieve the throughput obtained when prior knowledge of primary traffic statistics is available. For the un-slotted structure, the objective is to maximize the secondary throughput while satisfying an interference constraint on the primary network. Sensing-dependent periods are optimized for each primary channel yielding a MAC protocol which outperforms previously proposed techniques that rely on a single sensing period optimization.
Gamal Hesham El
Mehanna Omar
Sultan Ahmed
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