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Radio access technology classification for cognitive radio networks


Abstract:

In spectrum bands where spectrum sharing is allowed by national regulators, radio access technology recognition is an important technique for reducing interference and fa...Show More

Abstract:

In spectrum bands where spectrum sharing is allowed by national regulators, radio access technology recognition is an important technique for reducing interference and facilitating cooperation among cognitive radios. Unlicensed users (secondaries) need to be able to differentiate between transmissions of licensed users (primaries) and other unlicensed users. Furthermore, secondaries should only free a band when the licensed primary user starts to transmit. In this regard, secondary users' transmission technology classification will have a vital role for coexistence/cooperation purposes in such shared spectrum bands. For the purpose of this work, a practical testbed made up of software defined radio transceivers and a set of computing units was put together. A classification neural network was trained in a supervised learning method. Testbed results demonstrate the efficiency of the classification in differentiating among different radio access transmissions.
Date of Conference: 08-11 September 2013
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 25 November 2013
Electronic ISBN:978-1-4673-6235-1

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Conference Location: London, UK

I. Introduction

The huge demand to access information wirelessly and ubiquitously in the past decade in conjunction with the scarcity of radio resources [1] has resulted in intensive research towards the concept cognitive radio networks (CRNs) [2]. Nonetheless, only a small subset of published works have found their way into implementation and standardization. This is due to many factors; among them are the ambiguity of the cognitive radio concept for which many definitions exist, and the lack of complete implementable solutions.

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