• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.173-180
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• 2014

Random access protocols feature inherent sensing functionality and distributed coordination, making them suitable for cognitive radio communication environments, where secondary users must detect the white space of the primary spectrum and utilize the idle primary spectrum efficiently without centralized control. These characteristics have led to the adoption of carrier-sensing-multiple-access/collision-avoidance (CSMA/CA) in cognitive radio. This paper proposes a new analytical framework for evaluating the performance of a CSMA/CA protocol that considers the characteristics of idle periods based on the primary traffic behavior in cognitive radio systems. In particular, the CSMA/CA-based secondary network was analyzed in the terms of idle period utilization, which is the average effective data transmission time portion in an idle period. The use of the idle period was maximized by taking its statistical features into consideration.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권7C호
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• pp.672-679
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• 2006

Cognitive radio, which is designed to dynamically adapt its transmission to the environments, is believed to be one of the fundamental techniques for future spectrum utilization. As the first step of cognitive radio, spectrum sensing is treated as the most important technique, through which cognition is well explained. In this paper, we propose a spectral correlation based detection method for spectrum sensing. An unlicensed secondary user system operating in TV broadcast bands is taken as an example. Based on the cyclostationarity of communication signals, spectral correlation function is used to minimize the effect of random noise and interference. Energy measurement and peak detection based criteria are proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed detection method outperforms the energy detection and is more suitable for spectrum sensing in cognitive radios.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.353-360
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• 2014

In cognitive radio networks (CRNs), SU (secondary user)'s transmissions are frequently disrupted by PU (primary user)'s transmission. Therefore SU expereiences consecutive retransmission timeout and its exponential backoff, and subsequently, the TCP of SU does not proceed with the transmission even after the disruption is over or the SU succeeds to hold an idle channel. In order to solve this problem, we propose a cross-layer approach called TCP-Freeze-CR. Moreover we consider a practical scenario where either secondary transmitter (ST) or secondary receiver (SR) detects PU's transmission, which results in the need of spectrum synchronization mechanism. All of our proposals are implemented and verified with a real CRN testbed consisting of 6 software radios called USRP. The experimental results illustrate that standard TCP suffers from significant performance degradation and show that TCP-Freeze-CR greatly mitigates the degradation.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.19-29
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• 2010

Recently, spectrum sensing has been intensively studied as a key technology in realizing the cognitive radio. There have been advances in the performance of spectrum sensing through both multi-antenna and cooperative sensing schemes. In this paper, the performances and complicated scenarios of the latest spectrum sensing schemes are analytically compared and arranged into a technical tree while considering practical concerns. This paper will give a macroscopic view of spectrum sensing and will also provide insight into future spectrum sensing works.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.222-227
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• 2013

This paper presents an analytical framework for dynamic spectrum allocation in cognitive radio networks. We propose a distributed queuing based Markovian model each for single channel and multiple channels access for a contending user. Knowledge about spectrum mobility is one of the most challenging problems in both these setups. To solve this, we consider probabilistic channel availability in case of licensed channel detection for single channel allocation, while variable data rates are considered using channel aggregation technique in the multiple channel access model. These models are designed for a centralized architecture to enable dynamic spectrum allocation and are compared on the basis of access latency and service duration.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.74-80
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• 2015

In cognitive radios, spectrum sensing plays an important role in accurately detecting the presence or absence of a licensed user. However, the intervention of malicious users (MUs) degrades the performance of spectrum sensing. Such users manipulate the local results and send falsified data to the data fusion center; this process is called spectrum sensing data falsification (SSDF). Thus, MUs degrade the spectrum sensing performance and increase uncertainty issues. In this paper, we propose a method based on the Hausdorff distance and a similarity measure matrix to measure the difference between the normal user evidence and the malicious user evidence. In addition, we use the Dempster-Shafer theory to combine the sets of evidence from each normal user evidence. We compare the proposed method with the k-means and Jaccard distance methods for malicious user detection. Simulation results show that the proposed method is effective against an SSDF attack.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.391-395
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• 2011

Cognitive radio (CR) technique is a useful tool for improving spectrum utilization by detecting and using the vacant frequency bands while avoiding interference to the primary user. The sensing performance in a CR network can be improved by allowing some CR users to perform cooperative spectrum sensing. In this paper, we propose a new sensing algorithm that utilizes an adaptive energy threshold for cooperative spectrum sensing in which a changeable energy threshold is adopted by the CR users for improving local sensing performance. Through the proposed scheme, the reliability of global decision can be enhanced mainly due to the improvement in local sensing performance.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제9권7호
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• pp.95-101
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• 2009

인지 라디오(Cognitive Radio: CR) 기술은 우선 사용자와 CR 사용자가 무선 자원을 공유하여 무선 자원의 효율을 증가시킬 수 있는 기술이다. 본 논문에서는 셀에서의 채널사용에 대한 부분정보만이 CR 사용자에게 알려져 있음을 가정하고 채널 할당 모델을 설계한다. 모델은 우선 사용자가 CR 사용자에 의하여 간섭받지 않도록 설계하였으며, CR사용자의 채널 재획득과정을 포함한다. 설계된 인지 라디오에서의 채널 할당 모델을 분석하기 위하여 이에 대한 페트리 네트 모델을 개발하였으며 성능분석을 수행 한다. 성능지표로는 우선사용자 채널 점유율 변화에 따른 CR 사용자의 호 분설률과 처리율을 계산한다.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 무선인지시스템에서 스펙트럼 센싱을 효율적으로 수행하기 위한 선택적 협력 스펙트럼 검출 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘에서는 각 무선인지 사용자가 자신의 유도비(likelihood ratio)를 기반으로 자신의 센싱 신뢰도를 평가하고, 센싱 신뢰도에 따른 타이머를 활용하는 경쟁기반의 센싱 결과 보고 메커니즘을 활용한다. 이를 통해, 제안된 선택적 협력 스펙트럼 기법에서는 가장 높은 센싱 신뢰도를 갖는 무선인지 사용자만이 국부 스펙트럼 센싱값을 융합센터로 전송함으로써, 스펙트럼 센싱의 성능을 일정한 레벨로 유지하고, 협력 스펙트럼 센싱의 단점인 제어 트래픽 및 협력 센싱 시간을 줄이는 이점을 갖는다.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.5-11
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• 2006

무선인지기술은 환경에 능동적으로 적응하여 스펙트럼 이용을 효율적으로 할 수 있도록 하는 기술이다. 무선인지 기술의 가장 중요한 첫 단계는 센싱 부분으로서 본 논문에서는 주파수 상관관계를 이용한 방법을 제안하였다. 통신신호의 주기적인 특성을 기반으로 잡음과 간섭의 효과를 최소화하기 위해 주파수 상관함수를 사용하였다. 이미 알려진 에너지 측정 방법의 동작특성을 보이고 시뮬레이션을 통하여 제안된 측정 방법과 기존의 방법을 비교하여 무선인지환경을 이용한 스펙트럼 센싱의 효율성을 보인다.