Cognitive Mesh Network Under Interference from Primary User

Authors:
Rocco Taranto;Hiroyuki Yomo;Petar Popovski;Kentaro Nishimori;Ramjee Prasad
Affiliations:
Center for TeleInFrastructure (CTIF), Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark 9220;Center for TeleInFrastructure (CTIF), Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark 9220;Center for TeleInFrastructure (CTIF), Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark 9220;NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Yokosuka, Japan;Center for TeleInFrastructure (CTIF), Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark 9220
Venue:
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Year:
2008

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Abstract

In a commonly accepted usage scenario, a cognitive radio appears as a secondary user of certain spectrum which is licensed to another, primary system. A prominent example of cognitive system is a mesh network operating under the interference from primary system. For such a scenario, we propose techniques for efficient secondary usage of spectrum, which rely on the adaptive array antenna in order to reduce the interference between the primary and the cognitive system. In order to keep the hardware complexity as small as possible, the number of antennas at each cognitive node should be small. However, with the simplest 2-element linear adaptive array, the created antenna pattern can result in non-optimized pattern between cognitive nodes in the mesh network. In order to solve such a problem, this paper introduces a simple antenna pattern switching where each cognitive node is equipped with three antennas, and tries to select the antenna configuration constituting 2-element linear array with the best antenna pattern for each link. The proposed configuration requires three antennas but only two transceiver chains, which can reduce the hardware complexity. We also introduce 3-element linear array and design a simple procedure to heuristically select the pattern. Our numerical results show that the proposed techniques can significantly increase the available bandwidth and networking connectivity with small complexity when a cognitive mesh network is located inside the communication area of the primary system.