3rd International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications

Research Article

Cognitive Decision Making Process Supervising the Radio Dynamic Reconfiguration

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CROWNCOM.2008.4562503,
        author={Nicolas Colson and Apostolos Kountouris and Armelle Wautier and Lionel Husson},
        title={Cognitive Decision Making Process Supervising the Radio Dynamic Reconfiguration},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CROWNCOM},
        year={2008},
        month={7},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/CROWNCOM.2008.4562503}
    }
    
  • Nicolas Colson
    Apostolos Kountouris
    Armelle Wautier
    Lionel Husson
    Year: 2008
    Cognitive Decision Making Process Supervising the Radio Dynamic Reconfiguration
    CROWNCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CROWNCOM.2008.4562503
Nicolas Colson1,*, Apostolos Kountouris1, Armelle Wautier2, Lionel Husson2
  • 1: France Telecom R&D, Orange Labs 28, Chemin du Vieux Chene, 38243 Meylan, France
  • 2: Department of Telecommunications, SUPELEC 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
*Contact email: nicolas.colson@orange-ftgroup.com

Abstract

Cognitive radio is a technological concept pushing for the introduction of intelligent radio operation going beyond system adaptation and reconfiguration on the basis of simple criteria and rules. Insofar, a rather limited amount of work has been published on the cognitive mechanisms that should be embedded into the communicating equipments to achieve such an intelligent behavior. Towards filling this gap, this paper presents an innovative optimization algorithm driving the decision making process supervising the cognitive radio reconfiguration. This cognitive algorithm, called RALFE for ”Reason And Learn From Experience”, presents interesting features since it allows to perform autonomous decision making with regard to multiple, possibly conflicting, operational objectives in the face of an uncertain environment. The proposed approach is illustrated for a case of cognitive waveform design.