• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.1318-1323
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• 2013

We consider the design of opportunistic spectrum access schemes where secondary users can opportunistically access unused spectrum in non-slotted primary systems. Two non-slotted spectrum sensing and access schemes for secondary users are considered. We present experimental results that demonstrate the performance of the considered schemes.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.129-138
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• 2011

미래의 고속 및 광대역 서비스에 대한 수요 증가로, 부족한 스펙트럼을 효율적으로 사용할 수 있는 스펙트럼 관리(spectrum management) 방법의 중요성이 대두되고 있다. 또한, 트래픽 폭증 및 멀티미디어 제공 등 서비스 확대에 대응할 수 있는 유연한 스펙트럼 접속(spectrum access) 기술, 공유(sharing)에 대한 필요성도 증대되고 있다. 이러한 중요성 및 필요성에 기인해, 효율적으로 스펙트럼을 공유할 수 있는 방법으로 언더레이, 오버레이 방식 등이 제안되었고, UWB 및 인지무선(cognitive radio)과 같은 공유 기술 등이 발전하게 되었다. 본 고에서는 효율적 주파수 이용을 위한 스펙트럼 관리 방법 및 주파수 공유 기술로 기존의 주파수 대역에서 충분히 낮은 출력으로 전파를 송출하는 언더레이 방식, 기회주의적인 오버레이 동적접속 기술, 면허권자인 1차 우선 사용자(primary user)와 2차 면허권자(secondary user) 간의 동적접속 기술에 대한 국내 외 기술동향을 상세히 소개하고자 한다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.1-8
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• 2010

Wireless multimedia service through the access to mobile telephone network or data network is a vital part of contemporary life, and the demand for frequency spectrum for new services is expected to explode as the ubiquitous computing proliferate. Cognitive radio is a technology, which automatically recognizes and searches for temporally and spatially unused frequency spectrum, then actively determines the communication method, bandwidth, etc. according to the environment, thus utilizing the limited spectrum resources efficiently. In this paper, we investigate the effects of imperfect sensing, misdetection and false alarm, on the primary and secondary users' spectrum usage through the analysis of continuous time Markov Chain. We analyzed the effects of the parameters such as sensing error, offered load on the system performance.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.77-88
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• 2011

In distributed cognitive radio networks, cognitive radio devices which perform the channel sensing individually, are seriously affected by radio channel environments such as noise, shadowing and fading such that they can not property satisfy the maximum allowable interference level to the primary user. In the paper, we propose a Q-learning based channel access scheme for cognitive radios so as to satisfy the maximum allowable interference level to the primary user as well as to improve the throughput of cognitive radio by opportunistically accessing on the idle channels. In the proposed scheme, the pattern of channel usage of the primary user will be learned through Q-learning during the pre-play learning step, and then the learned channel usage pattern will be utilized for improving the sensing performance during the Q-learning normal operation step. Through the simulation, it is shown that the proposed scheme can provide bettor performance than the conventional energy detector in terms of the interference level to primary user and the throughput of cognitive radio under both AWGN and Rayleigh fading channels.