Cognitive radio sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Ozgur B. Akan;Osman B. Karli;Ozgur Ergul

  • Affiliations:
  • Middle East Technical University;Middle East Technical University;Middle East Technical University

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking - Special issue title on networking over multi-hop cognitive networks
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Dynamic spectrum access stands as a promising and spectrum-efficient communication approach for resource-constrained multihop wireless sensor networks due to their event-driven communication nature, which generally yields bursty traffic depending on the event characteristics. In addition, opportunistic spectrum access may also help realize the deployment of multiple overlaid sensor networks, and eliminate collision and excessive contention delay incurred by dense node deployment. Incorporating cognitive radio capability in sensor networks yields a new sensor networking paradigm (i.e., cognitive radio sensor networks). In this article the main design principles, potential advantages, application areas, and network architectures of CRSNs are introduced. The existing communication protocols and algorithms devised for cognitive radio networks and WSNs are discussed along with the open research avenues for the realization of CRSNs.