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A Cognitive MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks. Mehdi Abolfathi SDR Course Spring 2008. Overview. Need for Spectrum Access Related Works Access Scheme and Capacity Pus Constraints Sensing Techniques Statistical Channel Allocation Proposed combination. Cognitive Spectrum Access.
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A Cognitive MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks Mehdi Abolfathi SDR Course Spring 2008
Overview • Need for Spectrum Access • Related Works • Access Scheme and Capacity • Pus Constraints • Sensing Techniques • Statistical Channel Allocation • Proposed combination
Cognitive Spectrum Access • Basic idea • Sense the spectrum you want to transmit in • Look for “holes” or “opportunities” in time and frequency • Transmit so that you “don’t interfere” with the licensees
Cognitive Spectrum Access • Goals • Dynamically control access (Tx/Rx, beam, power etc.) on each time/frequency such that network capacity is maximized • Constraints are honored • Capacity demands are met
Related Works • Centralized and decentralized spectrum auction and brokerage • POMDP MAC protocol framework • A tri-band protocol, called the dynamic open spectrum sharing (DOSS) MAC
SU Access Schemes VX Scheme (Virtual-Xmit-if-Busy) KS Scheme (Keep-Sensing-if-Busy)
Primary User’s Statistics • Idle Time=Exponential • Busy Time=General • n Channels • Modeled as a M/G/n Queue
SU’s Maximum Capacity SU Packet Len. Dist. Mean PU Idle time
“Random Sensing” vs. “All Sensing” Random-Sensing: SU randomly selects a channel + Vitual Transmission All-Channel-Sensing: Each SU senses all channels + Virtual Transmission
QoS of PU All-Channel-Sensing strategy does not improve the total spectral efficiency
Multi-Band, Multi-User System • Multiple SUs has no loss/gain in terms of total throughput. • Sensing all the frequency bands does not improve the total throughput of SUs. • Dividing SUs into groups ≈ Scaled throughput
Consraints • For the Primary User • Idle Time=Exponential • Busy Time=General • n Channels • Modeled as a M/G/n Queue SU Packet Len. Dist. Mean PU Idle time
Constraints • G in “M/G/n” appears in: • Need for Sensing the Channel in KS or VX scheme • Capacity of SU decreases by the factor of
Proposed: “SCA” + “VX Scheme” • Identifying PU’s parameters, Historical Study • Search for the maximum available rate • Accessing the channel using the VX scheme
“SCA” + “VX Scheme”, Benefits • Distributed calculation, Ad Hoc networks • Not to sense the channel in unnecessary occasions, Hardware savings. • Smart access to the channel. • Finding the best combination of the channels to achieve the maximum throughput. • Acting as an independent layer for upper layers by transparency in the case of busy channel.
Some Results • SU’s Capacity Bound: • Under the VX scheme, the SU achieves the maximum throughput when it transmits fixed length packets, i.e., L2 = l2.