Asynchronous Quorum-Based Blind Rendezvous Schemes for Cognitive Radio Networks

作者:Sheu Jang Ping; Su Chih Wei; Chang Guey Yun*
来源:IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2016, 64(3): 918-930.
DOI:10.1109/TCOMM.2015.2508803

摘要

In cognitive radio networks, unlicensed users [secondary users (SU)] need to rendezvous on licensed channels before establishing communication links. Dedicated common control channel is the simplest way to achieve rendezvous. However, due to the absolute priority of licensed users [primary users (PU)] on accessing licensed channels, a dedicated common control channel may cause the PU long-time blocking problem, and the control channel saturation problem in a high SU density environment. Channel hopping schemes have been proposed to avoid the problems mentioned above. In this paper, we introduce two quorum-based channel hopping schemes. Our schemes outperform in terms of the four metrics: maximum time to rendezvous, channel loading, degree of rendezvous, and maximum conditional time to rendezvous.