Paper Info
Title
Techno-economic evaluation of cognitive radio in a factory scenario
Abstract
Wireless applications gradually enter every aspect of our life. Unfortunately, these applications must reuse the same scarce spectrum, resulting in increased interference and limited usability. Cognitive Radio proposes to mitigate this problem by adapting the operational parameters of wireless devices to varying interference conditions. However, it involves an increase in cost. In this paper we examine the economic balance between the added cost and the increased usability in one particular real-life scenario. We focus on the production floor of an industrial installation - where wireless sensors monitor production machinery, and a wireless LAN is used as the data backbone. We examine the effects of implementing dynamic spectrum access by means of ideal RF sensing, and model the benefit in terms of increased reliability and battery lifetime. We estimate the financial cost of interference and the potential gain, and conclude that cognitive radio can bring business gains in real-life applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-23041-7_6
Networking Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
cognitive radio,wireless device,added cost,increased interference,techno-economic evaluation,increased usability,financial cost,wireless application,wireless lan,increased reliability,factory scenario,wireless sensor
Radio resource management,Telecommunications,Wireless,Wireless site survey,Reuse,Computer science,Usability,Risk analysis (engineering),Interference (wave propagation),Distributed computing,Cognitive radio,Business analysis
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6827
0302-9743
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.63
3
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthias Barrie130.63
Lieven Tytgat2585.40
Vânia Gonçalves3234.51
Opher Yaron4454.15
Ingrid Moerman52050181.69
Piet Demeester63471363.78
Sofie Pollin71041113.94
Pieter Ballon812425.44
Simon Delaere93010.14