Transport Control Based on Spectrum Switching Detection in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks

Ren Han; Xiaoxia Huang; Pan Li

Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks. 7th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, QShine 2010, and Dedicated Short Range Communications Workshop, DSRC 2010, Houston, TX, USA, November 17-19, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

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Transport Control Based on Spectrum Switching Detection in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-29222-4_1,
    author={Ren Han and Xiaoxia Huang and Pan Li},
    title={Transport Control Based on Spectrum Switching Detection in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks},
    proceedings={Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks. 7th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, QShine 2010, and Dedicated Short Range Communications Workshop, DSRC 2010, Houston, TX, USA, November 17-19, 2010, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={QSHINE},
    year={2012},
    month={10},
    keywords={Cognitive radio ad hoc networks spectrum switching transport control},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-29222-4_1}
}

Ren Han
Xiaoxia Huang
Pan Li
Year: 2012
Transport Control Based on Spectrum Switching Detection in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks
QSHINE
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29222-4_1

Ren Han^,*, Xiaoxia Huang¹^,*, Pan Li²^,*

1: Chinese Academy of Sciences
2: Mississippi State University

*Contact email: ren.han@sub.siat.ac.cn, xx.huang@sub.siat.ac.cn, li@ece.msstate.edu

Abstract

Cognitive Radio is an intelligent wireless communication technology which can improve the radio spectrum utilization through opportunistically accessing the vacant portions of the spectrum. Due to the time-varying spectrum availability, a cognitive node has to perform spectrum switching frequently, which causes severe delay and high packet loss. Therefore, network protocol design for cognitive radio ad hoc networks (CRAHNs) should address this issue to ensure reliable end-to-end packet delivery. In this paper, we first propose a novel spectrum switching detection scheme for CRAHNs in which intermediate nodes monitor the variation of the Round-Trip Time (RTT) and the arrival interval time of packets to detect the spectrum switching over succeeding links. Based on the scheme, a new transport control mechanism is then designed to deal with spectrum switching in CRAHNs. We implement the proposed mechanisms on a USRP2-based testbed. The experiment results demonstrate that the mechanisms can detect the spectrum switching and improve end-to-end throughput by up to 45%.

Keywords: Cognitive radio ad hoc networks spectrum switching transport control

Published: 2012-10-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29222-4_1