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Performance analysis of a novel decentralised MAC protocol for cognitive radio networks

  • University of Bedfordshire
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Abstract

Due to the demand of emerging Cognitive Radio (CR) technology to permits using the unused licensed spectrum parts by cognitive users (CUs) to provide opportunistic and efficient utilisation of the white spaces. This requires deploying a CR MAC with the required characteristics to coordinate the spectrum access among CUs. Therefore, this paper presents the design and implementation of a novel Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for decentralised CRNs (MCRN). The protocol provides efficient utilisations of the unused licensed channels and enables CUs to exchange data successfully over licensed channels. This is based on the observation procedure of sensing the status of the Licensed Users (LUs) are ON or OFF over the licensed channels. The protocol is validated with the comparison procedure against two different benchmark protocols in terms of the network performance; communication time and throughput. Therefore, performance analysis demonstrated that the proposed MCRN perform better and achieve higher throughput and time benefits than the benchmarks protocols.

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Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 15/09/2016

Publication status

Published - 15/09/2016

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., United States

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/622078
  • Scopus: 85011961260

Host publication title

2016 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Wireless and Mobile (APWiMob)

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