• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2024

Cognitive small cell networks, consisting of macro-cells and small cells, are foreseen as a promising candidate solution to address 5G spectrum scarcity. Recently, many technological issues (such as spectrum sensing, spectrum sharing) related to cognitive small cell networks have been studied, but the common control channel (CCC) establishment problem has been ignored. CCC is an indispensable medium for control message exchange that could have a huge significant on transmitter-receiver handshake, channel access negotiation, topology change, and routing information updates, etc. Therefore, establishing CCC in cognitive small cell networks is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a potential game theory-based approach for CCC establishment in cognitive radio networks. We design a utility function and demonstrate that it is an exact potential game with a pure Nash equilibrium. To maintain the common control channel list (CCL), we develop a CCC update algorithm. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach has good convergence. On the other hand, it exhibits good delay and overhead of all networks.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.51-62
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• 2012

The exponential growth in wireless services has resulted in an overly crowded spectrum. The current state of spectrum allocation indicates that most usable frequencies have already been occupied. This makes one pessimistic about the feasibility of integrating emerging wireless services such as large-scale sensor networks into the existing communication infrastructure. Cognitive radio is an emerging dynamic spectrum access technology that can be used for flexibly and efficiently achieving open spectrum sharing. Cognitive radio is an intelligent wireless communication system that is aware of its radio environment and that is capable of adapting its operation to statistical variations of the radio frequency. In ad hoc cognitive radio networks, a common control channel (CCC) is usually used for supporting transmission coordination and spectrum-related information exchange. Determining a CCC in distributed networks is a challenging research issue because the spectrum availability at each ad hoc node is quite different and dynamic due to the interference between and coexistence of primary users. In this paper, we propose a novel CCC selection protocol that is implemented in a distributed way according to the appearance patterns of primary systems and connectivity among nodes. The proposed protocol minimizes the possibility of CCC disruption by primary user activities and maximizes node connectivity when the control channel is set up. It also facilitates adaptive recovery of the control channel when the primary user is detected on that channel.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2014년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.206-209
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• 2014

Control message exchange is major job for cognitive radio to exist and use spectrum opportunistically. For this control message exchange they need a common control channel (CCC). Once this channel is affected by a primary user, communication stops until new CCC is setup. This takes substantial time and if they could not get free channel, this halt continues for long time. To prevent such cease of communication, we propose a combination of two networks, namely WLAN and UWB, to let the communication continue. In our proposed idea if the CCC of a certain CR in WLAN is affected, the CR changes its network from WLAN to UWB and keeps the communication because UWB cannot be affected by PU. In the proposed idea every cognitive radio has two transceivers; one for the overlay network (WLAN) and another UWB network. If a primary user is detected in the spectrum of a cognitive radio, it continues exchanging control messages under the UWB network and in parallel negotiates for a new CCC using the WLAN network. This idea solves the communication interruption until new CCC is setup.

• Journal of Platform Technology
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.3-14
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• 2021

Cognitive Radio network (CR) is a promising paradigm that helps the unlicensed user (Secondary User) to analyse the spectrum and coordinate the spectrum access to support the creation of common control channel (CCC). The cooperation of secondary users and broadcasting between them is done through transmitting messages in CCC. In case, if the control channels may get jammed and it may directly degrade the network's performance and under such scenario jammers will devastate the control channels. Hopping sequences may be one of the predominant approaches and it may be used to fight against this problem to confront jammer. The jamming attack can be alleviated using one of the game modelling approach and in this proposed scheme stochastic games has been analysed with more single users to provide the flexible control channels against intrusive attacks by mentioning the states of each player, strategies ,actions and players reward. The proposed work uses a modern player action and better strategic view on game theoretic modelling is stochastic game theory has been taken in to consideration and applied to prevent the jamming attack in CR network. The selection of decision is based on Q learning approach to mitigate the jamming nodes using the optimal MDP decision process

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2012년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회논문집 Vol.39 No.1(D)
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• pp.294-296
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• 2012

In cognitive radio ad hoc networks, secondary users need to exchange control information before data transmission. This task is not trivial in cognitive radio networks due to the dynamic nature of environment. This problem is sometime called rendezvous problem of cognitive radio network. The rendezvous problem is normally tackled by using two famous approaches: the use of common control channel (CCC) and using channel hopping (a.k.a sequence-based protocols). However, these two famous solutions form a vicious cycle while solving the rendezvous problem. The main purpose of this paper is to point out how and why this vicious cycle is formed.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2012

무선인지 네트워크에서 비면허 사용자는 면허 스펙트럼 대역을 감지하여 가회가 있을 때마다 면허 사용자에 간섭을 일으키지 않고 매체에 접근한다. 특히 애드혹 네트워크에서는 MAC 계층이 비면허 사용자들간 스펙트럼 접근을 조정하는 중요한 역할을 수행한다. 이에 따라 최근 많은 MAC 프로토콜이 연구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 무선인지 애드혹 네트워크에서의 MAC 프로토콜을 비교 분석한다. 먼저 프로토콜들을 공통 제어 채널을 기준으로 분류하고 각 종류별 주요 프로토콜을 분석한다. 그리고 나서 프로토콜들을 고유 특성과 성능 측면에서 정성적으로 비교한다.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2012년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회논문집 Vol.39 No.1(D)
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• pp.243-245
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• 2012

스펙트럼 자원이 비효율적으로 사용되는 무선 네트워크에서의 대안으로 여겨지는 CR (Cognitive Radio) 네트워크는 아키텍처에 따라 인프라 기반 네트워크와 CRAHNs (Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks)으로 나눌 수 있다. CCC (Common Control Channel)조차 운영이 어려운 분산 CRAHNs에서 이를 해결하기 위해 제안된 기술들의 문제점을 제시하고 이를 개선하기 위한 주기적 스펙트럼 감지 정책을 제안해 OPNET을 사용해 SU (Secondary User) 처리량 측면에서 성능 검증하였다.