CREAM-MAC: An efficient Cognitive Radio-enAbled Multi-Channel MAC protocol for wireless networks

Authors:
Hang Su; Xi Zhang
Affiliations:
Networking and Information Systems Laboratory Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas A&MUniversity, College Station, 77843, USA;Networking and Information Systems Laboratory Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas A&MUniversity, College Station, 77843, USA
Venue:
WOWMOM '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Cognitive radio technology has emerged as the novel and effective approach to improve the utilization of precious radio spectrum. Employing the cognitive radio technology, secondary (unlicensed) users can opportunistically utilize the unused licensed spectrum in a way that constrains the level of interference to the primary (licensed) users. However, there are many new challenges associated with cognitive radio based wireless networks, such as the multi-channel hidden terminal problem and the fact that the time-varying channel availability is different for different secondary users, in the medium access control (MAC) layer. To overcome these challenges, we propose an efficient Cognitive Radio-EnAbled Multi-channel MAC (CREAM-MAC) protocol, which integrates the spectrum sensing at physical layer and packet scheduling at MAC layer, over the wireless networks. Under the proposed CREAM-MAC protocol, each secondary user is equipped with a cognitive radio-enabled transceiver and multiple channel sensors. The proposed CREAM-MAC enables the secondary users to best utilize the unused frequency spectrum while avoiding the collisions among secondary users and between secondary users and primary users. In addition, we develop the analytical models to quantitatively analyze our proposed CREAM-MAC protocol in the saturated network case. We also conduct simulation experiments to validate our developed analytical models.