Optimal medium access control in cognitive radios: A sequential design approach

Lifeng Lai, Hesham El Gamal, Hai Jiang, H. Vincent Poor

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Abstract

The design of medium access control protocols for a cognitive user wishing to opportunistically exploit frequency bands within parts of the radio spectrum having multiple bands is considered. In the scenario under consideration, the availability probability of each channel is unknown a priori to the cognitive user. Hence efficient medium access strategies must strike a balance between exploring the availability of channels and exploiting the opportunities identified thus far. Using a sequential design approach, an optimal medium access strategy is derived. To avoid the prohibitive computational complexity of this optimal strategy, a low complexity asymptotically optimal strategy is also developed. The proposed strategy does not require any prior statistical knowledge about the traffic pattern on the different channels.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP
Pages2073-2076
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP - Las Vegas, NV, United States
Duration: Mar 31 2008Apr 4 2008

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Other

Other2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas, NV
Period3/31/084/4/08

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • Bandit problem
  • Cognitive radio
  • Medium access control

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