Title
Decentralized Blind Spectrum Selection in Cognitive Radio Networks Considering Handoff Cost.
Abstract
Due to the spectrum varying nature of cognitive radio networks, secondary users are required to perform spectrum handoffs when the spectrum is occupied by primary users, which will lead to a handoff delay. In this paper, based on the multi-armed bandit framework of medium access in decentralized cognitive radio networks, we investigate blind spectrum selection problem of secondary users whose sensing ability of cognitive radio is limited and the channel statistics are a priori unknown, taking the handoff delay as a fixed handoff cost into consideration. In this scenario, secondary users have to make the choice of either staying foregoing spectrum with low availability or handing off to another spectrum with higher availability. We model the problem and investigate the performance of three representative policies, i.e., rho(PRE), SL(K), kth-UCB1. The simulation results show that, despite the inclusion of the fixed handoff cost, these policies achieve the same asymptotic performance as that without handoff cost. Moreover, through comparison of these policies, we found the kth-UCB1 policy has better overall performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.3390/fi9020010
FUTURE INTERNET
Keywords
Field
DocType
cognitive radio networks,opportunistic spectrum access,multi-armed bandit,handoff cost,distributed algorithms
Computer science,A priori and a posteriori,Computer network,Distributed algorithm,Channel statistics,Multi-armed bandit,Handover,Cognitive radio
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
2
1999-5903
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.39
11
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yongqun Chen1172.06
Huaibei Zhou240.81
Ruoshan Kong320.39
Li Zhu46522.91
Huaqing Mao530.74