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Cognitive Radio Network


Architecture and its
Applications

Vijay A Goud
Dept of ECE
1005-14-744306

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LECTURE FLOW

Introduction to cognitive radio


Fundamentals of cognitive radio technology
Architecture of cognitive radio network
Concept of spectrum sensing
Issues in dynamic spectrum allocation and sharing
Applications of cognitive radio
Conclusion
References

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Introduction to cognitive radio

Scarcity of communication resources


Increased number of wireless users
Inefficient usage of licensed spectrum
Increased traffic in license free band
deployment of dynamic spectrum access techniques
Innovative communication technology to address the above issues
The concept of cognitive radio is proposed

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Fundamentals of cognitive radio technology


Cognitive radio characteristics
a. Cognitive capability
b . Reconfigurabilty

Cognitive radio functions


a.
b.
c.

Spectrum sensing and analysis


Spectrum management and handoff
Spectrum allocation and sharing

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Fundamentals of cognitive radio technology

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Fundamentals of cognitive radio technology

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Architecture of cognitive radio network


Components of architecture
1.primary network
2.primary base station
3.secondary network
4.secondary base station
5.spectrum broker

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Spectrum sensing and analysis

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Energy detector
1.most common type of spectrum sensing
2.easy to implement
3.requires no prior knowledge of primary signal
Feature detector
1.inherent periodicity in signals compared to noise

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Spectrum sensing and analysis

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Matched filtering and coherent detection


1.prior information about primary signal is required
Cooperative sensing
1.user selection
2.decision fusion
3.efficient information sharing
4.disributed cooperative sensing

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Dynamic spectrum allocation and sharing


Open spectrum sharing
Hierarchical access model
1.specrtum underlay
secondary and primary both exists
2.spectrum overlay
secondary exists only when primary absent

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Issues in DSA and sharing


A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

Medium access control in CR networks


Spectrum handoff
Cognitive relaying
Spectrum sensing and access
Power control in a CR network

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Issues Continued
F . Control channel management
G . Distributed spectrum sharing
H . Spectrum sharing game
I . Routing in a CR network
J . Cooperation stimulation and enforcement
K . Security in CR networks

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Applications of cognitive radio

Improving the capacity of military communications


Enhancing public safety and homeland security
Facilitates interoperability between various communications systems
Commercial applications like data processing
Secure communication

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CONCLUSION

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Cognitive Radio Technology is the solution towards more efficient


utilization of the scarce spectrum resources in an adaptive and intelligent
way

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References
[1] Facilitating opportunities for flexible, efficient and reliable spectrum
use employing cognitive radio technologies: Notice of proposed rule
making and order, FCC, Dec. 2003, FCC Doc. ET Docket No. 03-108.
[2] J. Mitola, Cognitive radio: An integrated agent architecture for
software
defined radio, Ph.D. dissertation, KTH Royal Inst. of Technol.,
Stockholm, Sweden, 2000.
[3] Spectrum Policy Task Force Report, FCC, Nov. 2002, FCC Doc. ET
Docket No. 02-135.
[4] S. Haykin, Cognitive radio: Brain-empowered wireless
communications,
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 201220, Feb. 2005.

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