Title
Dynamic Spectrum Access Techniques for Preservation of Environment and Cultural Heritage
Abstract
In recent years, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been largely deployed for various applications. Among them, monitoring in unlicensed frequency bands of the environment and historical sites assumes particular relevance. However, these bands are becoming more and more overcrowded due to the fast growth of wireless services relying on them. A possible solution to overcome this problem is offered by the so-called Cognitive Radio (CR) technologies. According to the Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) paradigm, nodes of one WSN can act as Secondary Users (SUs) accessing the unused portion of one licensed spectrum band. This is admitted provided that harmful interference to the licensees, namely the Primary Users (PUs), is avoided. In this paper, we describe how WSNs using DSA can be employed for applications of environment and cultural heritage monitoring. We show by system simulation that underlay CR techniques are well-suited to this kind of applications, allowing sensor nodes to continuously perform sensing data exchange while coexisting with primary systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/WETICE.2011.42
Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
Keywords
Field
DocType
cognitive radio,history,radio spectrum management,wireless sensor networks,cognitive radio technologies,cultural heritage,dynamic spectrum access techniques,secondary users,wireless sensor networks,Cognitive Radio,Dynamic Spectrum Access,Preservation of Cultural Heritage,Spectrum Underlay,Ultra-wideband,Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless,Cultural heritage,Computer science,Computer network,Bandwidth (signal processing),Ultra-wideband,Underlay,Wireless sensor network,Radio spectrum,Distributed computing,Cognitive radio
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1524-4547 E-ISBN : 978-0-7695-4410-6
978-0-7695-4410-6
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Petracca1619.54
Remo Pomposini2253.75
Francesco Vatalaro34813.53