A POMDP-based spectrum handoff protocol for partially observable cognitive radio networks

Authors:
Rui-Ting Ma;Yu-Pin Hsu;Kai-Ten Feng
Affiliations:
Department of Communication Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan;Department of Communication Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan;Department of Communication Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Venue:
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Recent studies have been conducted to indicate the ineffective usage of licensed bands due to the static spectrum allocation. In order to improve the spectrum utilization, the cognitive radio (CR) is therefore suggested to dynamically exploit the opportunistic primary frequency spectrums. How to provide efficient spectrum handoff has been considered a crucial issue in the CR networks. Existing spectrum handoff algorithms assume that all the channels within the network can be correctly sensed by the CR users in order to perform appropriate spectrum hand-off process. However, this assumption is considered impracticable in realistic circumstances primarily due to the excessive time required for the CR user to sense the entire spectrum space. In this paper, the partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) is exploited to estimate the network information by partially sensing the frequency spectrums. A POMDP-based spectrum handoff (POSH) scheme is proposed to determine the optimal target channel for spectrum handoff according to the partially observable channel state information. By adopting the policy resulted from the POSH algorithm for target channel selection, minimal waiting time at each occurrence of spectrum handoff can be achieved. Numerical results illustrate that the proposed POSH scheme can effectively minimize the required waiting time for spectrum handoff in the CR networks.