• 제목/요약/키워드: Cognitive Radio Networks

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A new Network Coordinator Node Design Selecting the Optimum Wireless Technology for Wireless Body Area Networks

  • Calhan, Ali;Atmaca, Sedat
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • 제7권5호
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    • pp.1077-1093
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    • 2013
  • This paper proposes a new network coordinator node design to select the most suitable wireless technology for WBANs by using fuzzy logic. Its goal is to select a wireless communication technology available considering the user/application requirements and network conditions. A WBAN is composed of a set of sensors placed in, on, or around human body, which monitors the human body functions and the surrounding environment. In an effort to send sensor readings from human body to medical center or a station, a WBAN needs to stay connected to a local or a wide area network by using various wireless communication technologies. Nowadays, several wireless networking technologies may be utilized in WLANs and/or WANs each of which is capable of sending WBAN sensor readings to the desired destination. Therefore, choosing the best serving wireless communications technology has critical importance to provide quality of service support and cost efficient connections for WBAN users. In this work, we have developed, modeled, and simulated some networking scenarios utilizing our fuzzy logic-based NCN by using OPNET and MATLAB. Besides, we have compared our proposed fuzzy logic based algorithm with widely used RSSI-based AP selection algorithm. The results obtained from the simulations show that the proposed approach provides appropriate outcomes for both the WBAN users and the overall network.

Sensing Performance of Efficient Cyclostationary Detector with Multiple Antennas in Multipath Fading and Lognormal Shadowing Environments

  • Zhu, Ying;Liu, Jia;Feng, Zhiyong;Zhang, Ping
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • 제16권2호
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    • pp.162-171
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    • 2014
  • Spectrum sensing is a key technical challenge for cognitive radio (CR). It is well known that multicycle cyclostationarity (MC) detection is a powerful method for spectrum sensing. However, a conventional MC detector is difficult to implement because of its high computational complexity. This paper considers reducing computational complexity by simplifying the test statistic of a conventional MC detector. On the basis of this simplification process, an improved MC detector is proposed. Compared with the conventional detector, the proposed detector has low-computational complexity and high-accuracy sensing performance. Subsequently, the sensing performance is further investigated for the cases of Rayleigh, Nakagami-m, Rician, and Rayleigh fading and lognormal shadowing channels. Furthermore, square-law combining (SLC) is introduced to improve the detection capability in fading and shadowing environments. The corresponding closed-form expressions of average detection probability are derived for each case by the moment generation function (MGF) and contour integral approaches. Finally, illustrative and analytical results show the efficiency and reliability of the proposed detector and the improvement in sensing performance by SLC in multipath fading and lognormal shadowing environments.

Exploitation of Spatial Diversity in a Novel Cooperative Spectrum Sharing Method based on PAM and Modified PAM Modulation

  • Tran, Truc Thanh;Kong, Hyung Yun
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • 제16권3호
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    • pp.280-292
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    • 2014
  • This article presents a novel cooperative spectrum sharing (CSS) scheme. The primary transmitter transmits a complex Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signal in the first phase, and CSS occurs in the second phase. The secondary transmitter with the largest forwarding channel gain among the nodes that successfully decode the primary signal in the first phase is selected for CSS. This selected node employs a pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) signal for primary information message (IM) instead of the QAM signal, and it employs a modified PAM signal for the secondary IM. The proposed modified PAM signal depends on the amplitude of the primary PAM signal. This method results in no mutual interference and negligible primary interference constraint and allows a higher degree of exploitation of spatial diversity, thus enabling increase in secondary power to improve primary transmission. The outage performance is enhanced in both the primary and secondary systems. The critical region, in which the primary outage performance is enhanced with the proposed CSS scheme, can be adjusted and widened by varying either the modulation cooperation sharing factor or the number of secondary transmitters.

Block-Time of Arrival/Leaving Estimation to Enhance Local Spectrum Sensing under the Practical Traffic of Primary User

  • Tran, Truc Thanh;Kong, Hyung Yun
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • 제15권5호
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    • pp.514-526
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    • 2013
  • With a long sensing period, the inter-frame spectrum sensing in IEEE 802.22 standard is vulnerable to the effect of the traffic of the primary user (PU). In this article, we address the two degrading factors that affect the inter-frame sensing performance with respect to the random arrival/leaving of the PU traffic. They are the noise-only samples under the random arrival traffic, and the PU-signal-contained samples under the random leaving traffic. We propose the model in which the intra-frame sensing cooperates with the inter-frame one, and the inter-frame sensing uses the time-of-arrival (ToA), and time-of-leave (ToL) detectors to reduce the two degrading factors in the inter-frame sensing time. These ToA and ToL detectors are used to search for the sample which contains either the ToA or ToL of the PU traffic, respectively, which allows the partial cancelation of the unnecessary samples. At the final stage, the remaining samples are input into a primary user detector, which is based on the energy detection scheme, to determine the status of PU traffic in the inter-frame sensing time. The analysis and the simulation results show that the proposed scheme enhances the spectrum-sensing performance compared to the conventional counter-part.

Hybrid Spectrum Sharing with Cooperative Secondary User Selection in Cognitive Radio Networks

  • Kader, Md. Fazlul;Asaduzzaman, Asaduzzaman;Hoque, Md. Moshiul
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • 제7권9호
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    • pp.2081-2100
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, we propose a cooperative hybrid spectrum sharing protocol by jointly considering interweave (opportunistic) and underlay schemes. In the proposed protocol, secondary users can access the licensed spectrum along with the primary system. Our network scenario comprises a single primary transmitter-receiver (PTx-PRx) pair and a group of M secondary transmitter-receiver (STx-SRx) pairs within the transmission range of the primary system. Secondary transmitters are divided into two groups: active and inactive. A secondary transmitter that gets an opportunity to access the secondary spectrum is called "active". One of the idle or inactive secondary transmitters that achieves the primary request target rate $R_{PT}$ will be selected as a best decode-and-forward (DF) relay (Re) to forward the primary information when the data rate of the direct link between PTx and PRx falls below $R_{PT}$. We investigate the ergodic capacity and outage probability of the primary system with cooperative relaying and outage probability of the secondary system. Our theoretical and simulation results show that both the primary and secondary systems are able to achieve performance improvement in terms of outage probability. It is also shown that ergodic capacity and outage probability improve when the active secondary transmitter is located farther away from the PRx.

인지 무선 네트워크에서 Sub-Nyquist 샘플링을 활용한 협력 스펙트럼 센싱 기법 (Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Utilizing Sub-Nyquist Sampling in Cognitive Radio Networks)

  • 정홍규;김광열;신요안
    • 한국통신학회논문지
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    • 제40권7호
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    • pp.1234-1238
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    • 2015
  • 본 논문에서는 Sub-Nyquist 샘플링 기반의 협력 스펙트럼 센싱 기법을 제안한다. 최근 압축 센싱 (Compressive Sensing) 기술이 많은 주목을 받으면서 원본 신호의 성긴 정도 (Sparsity)를 추정하는 기법도 활발히 연구되고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 주파수 대역의 Sparsity를 안다고 가정할 때 다양한 샘플링율과 협력 센싱 기법에 따른 Sub-Nyquist 샘플링 기법의 검출 성능을 수학적으로 분석한다. 또한 모의실험 결과를 통해 제안된 기법의 성능을 입증한다.

Two-Dimensional POMDP-Based Opportunistic Spectrum Access in Time-Varying Environment with Fading Channels

  • Wang, Yumeng;Xu, Yuhua;Shen, Liang;Xu, Chenglong;Cheng, Yunpeng
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • 제16권2호
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    • pp.217-226
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    • 2014
  • In this research, we study the problem of opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) in a time-varying environment with fading channels, where the channel state is characterized by both channel quality and the occupancy of primary users (PUs). First, a finite-state Markov channel model is introduced to represent a fading channel. Second, by probing channel quality and exploring the activities of PUs jointly, a two-dimensional partially observable Markov decision process framework is proposed for OSA. In addition, a greedy strategy is designed, where a secondary user selects a channel that has the best-expected data transmission rate to maximize the instantaneous reward in the current slot. Compared with the optimal strategy that considers future reward, the greedy strategy brings low complexity and relatively ideal performance. Meanwhile, the spectrum sensing error that causes the collision between a PU and a secondary user (SU) is also discussed. Furthermore, we analyze the multiuser situation in which the proposed single-user strategy is adopted by every SU compared with the previous one. By observing the simulation results, the proposed strategy attains a larger throughput than the previous works under various parameter configurations.

클러스터링 기반 인지 무선 애드혹 라우팅 프로토콜의 경로 복구 오버헤드 감소 기법 (A Method for Reducing Path Recovery Overhead of Clustering-based, Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Routing Protocol)

  • 장진경;임지훈;김도형;고영배;김정식;서명환
    • 전기전자학회논문지
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    • 제23권1호
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    • pp.280-288
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    • 2019
  • 인지 무선 기술을 활용하는 모바일 애드 혹 네트워크에서는 인지 무선 기술의 특성 (주 사용자의 등장으로 인한 채널 변경) 및 단말의 이동성으로 인한 빈번한 경로 단절이 발생하며, 이에 따라 경로 유지/복구 오버헤드가 크게 증가하고 컨트롤 메시지 혼잡에 따른 서비스 품질저하가 초래될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 인지 무선 기술의 특성을 고려하여, 네트워크 캐싱을 활용한 경로 유지/복구 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법에서는 단말이 경로 단절을 인지하더라도, 즉시 경로 재설정을 위한 메시지들을 발생시키지 않고, 전달받은 패킷을 저장한 채, 1) 주사용자가 비활성화 되는 것을 기다리고 2) 다른 플로우의 메시지를 오버히어링하여 유효한 우회로를 파악함으로써, 불필요한 컨트롤 메시지 발생을 최소화한다. 이후에도 경로복구가 이루어지지 않을 경우, 지역적인 경로복구 및 지연 전달방법을 적용함으로써, 메시지 전달률을 확보하게 된다. OPNET 시뮬레이션을 통한 성능 검증에 따르면, 제안하는 방법은 혼잡한 네트워크에서 기존 연구 대비 네트워크에 경로 복구를 위해 발생하는 컨트롤 메시지를 13.8% 감소시키며, 이로 인해 실시간성 트래픽의 전달 지연시간을 45.4% 줄일 수 있음을 확인하였다. 그럼에도 비실시간성 트래픽의 전달률을 14.5% 증가시키는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

캐패시터 크로스 커플링 방법을 이용한 5.2 GHz 대역에서의 저전력 저잡음 증폭기 설계 (Design of a Low Power Capacitor Cross-Coupled Common-Gate Low Noise Amplifier)

  • 심재민;정지채
    • 한국전자파학회논문지
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    • 제23권3호
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    • pp.361-366
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    • 2012
  • 본 논문에서는 TSMC 0.18 ${\mu}m$ CMOS 공정을 사용하여 저전력, 5.2 GHz 대역 저잡음 증폭기를 설계하였다. 제안된 회로는 5.2 GHz 대역 저잡음 증폭기 설계를 위해, 공통 게이트 구조를 이용하여 입력 정합을 하였다. 입력 정합단에 캐패시터 크로스 커플링 방법을 사용하여 적은 양의 전류를 흘려 적당한 이득을 얻었다. 추가적인 전력 소비 없이 부족한 이득을 증가시키기 위하여 전류 재사용 방법을 이용하여 공통 게이트 증폭단 위에 공통 소스 구조를 추가하였다. 전류 재사용단의 인덕터의 크기를 줄이기 위하여 캐패시터를 병렬로 연결함으로써 실효 인덕턴스 값을 증가시켜 인덕터의 크기를 줄였다. 제안된 회로는 5.2 GHz 대역에서 17.4 dB의 이득과 2.7 dB의 잡음 지수 특성을 갖는다. 저잡음 증폭기는 1.8 V의 공급 전압에 대해 5.2 mW의 전력을 소비한다.

무선센서네트워크를 위한 신호 에너지 기반 사이클로스테이셔너리 스펙트럼 검출 (Signal Energy-based Cyclostationary Spectrum Sensing for Wireless Sensor Networks)

  • 응웬 꽉 끼엔;전태현
    • 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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    • 제11권3호
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    • pp.119-122
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    • 2016
  • 특징 검출 기법은 원하는 신호에 대한 부분적인 정보가 수신단에 알려진 상황에서 정확도 높은 검출이 가능한 기법으로 알려져 있다. 이러한 방식의 검출 기법은 잡음이 강한 환경을 위해 제안되었다. 사이클로스테이셔너리 검출은 인지 무선 시스템에서 스펙트럼 검출 기법의 하나의 예이다. 그러나 이 기법은 원하는 신호에 대한 많은 양의 정보와 처리 시간을 요구한다. 반면, 에너지 검출 기반의 스펙트럼 검출은 단순한 기법으로 널리 알려져 있다. 그러나 에너지 검출은 잡음의 영향을 많이 받으며 이로 인한 검출 오류가 많이 발생하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 에너지와 사이클로스테이셔너리 기반의 기법을 결합하여 검출의 정확도를 높이는 한편 계산량과 처리 시간을 감소시키는 기법을 제안한다. 2단계의 문턱값을 이용하여 사이클로스테이셔너리 기법의 복잡도와 처리시간을 단축하여 시스템의 전송 효율을 증가시킨다. 시뮬레이션 결과 에너지 기반 사이클로스테이셔너리 검출 기법은 신호 검출에 소요되는 시간을 상당히 감소시키는 반면 시스템의 성능을 향상시킴을 보여준다.