Proceedings of the 5th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
NeXt generation/dynamic spectrum access/cognitive radio wireless networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Comparison of Multichannel MAC Protocols
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
OS-MAC: An Efficient MAC Protocol for Spectrum-Agile Wireless Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
CRAHNs: Cognitive radio ad hoc networks
Ad Hoc Networks
Mitigating control-channel jamming attacks in multi-channel ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the second ACM conference on Wireless network security
CREAM-MAC: An efficient Cognitive Radio-enAbled Multi-Channel MAC protocol for wireless networks
WOWMOM '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Mitigation of Control Channel Jamming under Node Capture Attacks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
A quorum-based framework for establishing control channels in dynamic spectrum access networks
Proceedings of the 15th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Glia: a practical solution for effective high datarate wifi-arrays
Proceedings of the 15th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A distributed network coded control channel for multihop cognitive radio networks
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking - Special issue title on networking over multi-hop cognitive networks
WIMOB '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications
Spectrum opportunity-based control channel assignment in cognitive radio networks
SECON'09 Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE communications society conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
A cognitive radio network architecture without control channel
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Control information exchange through UWB in cognitive radio networks
ISWPC'10 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE international conference on Wireless pervasive computing
Dynamic spectrum access using a network coded cognitive control channel
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
OFDM-Based Common Control Channel Design for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks: A survey
Physical Communication
Decentralized cognitive MAC for opportunistic spectrum access in ad hoc networks: A POMDP framework
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
HC-MAC: A Hardware-Constrained Cognitive MAC for Efficient Spectrum Management
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Control Channel Establishment in Cognitive Radio Networks using Channel Hopping
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
CRP: A Routing Protocol for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Coordination problem in cognitive wireless mesh networks
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Neighbor discovery for cognitive radio ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
Mobile Networks and Applications
Sensing Confidence Level-Based Joint Spectrum and Power Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Slow hopping based cooperative sensing MAC protocol for cognitive radio networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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Cognitive radio networks have been recognized as a promising paradigm to address the spectrum under-utilization problem. To improve spectrum efficiency, many operations such as sharing data in cooperative spectrum sensing, broadcasting spectrum-aware routing information, and coordinating spectrum access rely on control message exchange on a common control channel. Thus, a reliable and ''always on'' common control channel is indispensable. Since the common control channel may be subject to primary user activity, the common control channel design in cognitive radio networks encounters unprecedented challenges: cognitive radio users are unable to negotiate a new control channel when the original one is occupied by primary users. In this paper, the problem of common control channel design is presented by its classification, design challenges, design schemes, and its applications in network protocol layers. The issues of control channel saturation, robustness to primary user activity, limited control channel coverage, control channel security are identified as design challenges. Moreover, the major control channel design schemes such as sequence-based, group-based, dedicated, and ultra wideband approaches are presented. Lastly, the relation of the common control channel with radio interface, cooperative sensing, medium access control, and routing are discussed.