Title
Opportunistic Multiple Access for Cognitive Radio Networks
Abstract
In this paper, opportunistic multiple access to the under-utilized channel resources is investigated. Exploiting source burstiness, secondary cognitive nodes utilizes primary nodes' periods of silence to access the channel and transmit their packets. Cognitive relays could also make use of these silence periods to offer spatial diversity without incurring bandwidth efficiency losses. First, we consider the cognitive cooperation protocol and propose two different relay assignment schemes. Comparison between the proposed schemes is carried out through a maximum stable throughput analysis of the network. Then, secondary nodes access to the remaining idle channel resources is investigated. Queueing theoretical analysis and numerical results reveal that despite the fact that relays occupy part of the idle resources to provide cooperation, secondary nodes surprisingly achieve higher throughput in the presence of relays. The rationale is that relays help primary nodes empty their queues at faster rates, therefore, secondary nodes observe increased access opportunities to the channel.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/JSAC.2011.110404
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Relays,Time division multiple access,Throughput,Protocols,Queueing analysis,Stability criteria
Computer science,Network packet,Communication channel,Computer network,Burstiness,Spectral efficiency,Throughput,Time division multiple access,Relay,Distributed computing,Cognitive radio
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
29
4
0733-8716
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
27
1.16
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amr A. El-Sherif115217.57
A. K. Sadek264627.29
K. J. Ray Liu310390743.86