Reliability analysis of a channel restoration mechanism for opportunistic spectrum access

Authors:
Arash Azarfar;Jean-FrançOis Frigon;Brunilde Sansò
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical Engineering, ícole Polytechnique de Montréal, C.P. 6079, Succ. centre-ville, Montréal, QC, Canada H3C 3A7;Department of Electrical Engineering, ícole Polytechnique de Montréal, C.P. 6079, Succ. centre-ville, Montréal, QC, Canada H3C 3A7;Department of Electrical Engineering, ícole Polytechnique de Montréal, C.P. 6079, Succ. centre-ville, Montréal, QC, Canada H3C 3A7
Venue:
Computer Communications
Year:
2013

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Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the promising yet mostly unexplored ability of opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) based on cognitive radios (CR) to provide a robust infrastructure for wireless networks operating in challenging environments with frequent transmission link disruptions. We consider a general network model where the CR users can utilize spectrum sensing and channel switching to determine the status of a channel and use a restoration process when a link failure occurs. We first classify the reliability metrics in CR networks based on the perspective and severity of the failures. We then derive analytical relations for the mean time to failure (MTTF) and mean time to repair (MTTR) of the CR users. With the proposed OSA channel restoration scheme, we show that the MTTF between hard failures, where a user cannot communicate for a long interval, increases exponentially with the number of channels available to the CR users. When a failure occurs, the MTTR also decreases exponentially with the number of channels, thereby providing a highly robust communication environment. Finally, we provide design guidelines that can be used to evaluate the tradeoffs between the number of users and channels versus the required reliability.