Performance analysis of a novel decentralised MAC protocol for cognitive radio networks

Alhakami, Wajdi; Mansour, Ali; Safdar, Ghazanfar Ali

dc.contributor.author	Alhakami, Wajdi	en
dc.contributor.author	Mansour, Ali	en
dc.contributor.author	Safdar, Ghazanfar Ali	en
dc.date.accessioned	2017-04-11T14:08:34Z
dc.date.available	2017-04-11T14:08:34Z
dc.date.issued	2016-09-15
dc.identifier.citation	Alhakami, W, Mansour, A, Safdar, G (2016) 'Performance analysis of a novel decentralised MAC protocol for cognitive radio networks', 2016 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Wireless and Mobile (APWiMob) - Bandung.	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1109/APWiMob.2016.7811439
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10547/622078
dc.description.abstract	Due to the demand of emerging Cognitive Radio (CR) technology to permits using the unused licensed spectrum parts by cognitive users (CUs) to provide opportunistic and efficient utilisation of the white spaces. This requires deploying a CR MAC with the required characteristics to coordinate the spectrum access among CUs. Therefore, this paper presents the design and implementation of a novel Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for decentralised CRNs (MCRN). The protocol provides efficient utilisations of the unused licensed channels and enables CUs to exchange data successfully over licensed channels. This is based on the observation procedure of sensing the status of the Licensed Users (LUs) are ON or OFF over the licensed channels. The protocol is validated with the comparison procedure against two different benchmark protocols in terms of the network performance; communication time and throughput. Therefore, performance analysis demonstrated that the proposed MCRN perform better and achieve higher throughput and time benefits than the benchmarks protocols.
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	IEEE	en
dc.relation.url	http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7811439	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	MAC protocols	en
dc.subject	cognitive radio	en
dc.title	Performance analysis of a novel decentralised MAC protocol for cognitive radio networks	en
dc.type	Conference papers, meetings and proceedings	en
dc.contributor.department	University of Bedfordshire	en
dc.date.updated	2017-04-11T13:47:43Z
html.description.abstract	Due to the demand of emerging Cognitive Radio (CR) technology to permits using the unused licensed spectrum parts by cognitive users (CUs) to provide opportunistic and efficient utilisation of the white spaces. This requires deploying a CR MAC with the required characteristics to coordinate the spectrum access among CUs. Therefore, this paper presents the design and implementation of a novel Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for decentralised CRNs (MCRN). The protocol provides efficient utilisations of the unused licensed channels and enables CUs to exchange data successfully over licensed channels. This is based on the observation procedure of sensing the status of the Licensed Users (LUs) are ON or OFF over the licensed channels. The protocol is validated with the comparison procedure against two different benchmark protocols in terms of the network performance; communication time and throughput. Therefore, performance analysis demonstrated that the proposed MCRN perform better and achieve higher throughput and time benefits than the benchmarks protocols.