2nd International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications

Research Article

Distributed Load Balancing Algorithm for Adaptive Channel Allocation for Cognitive Radios

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CROWNCOM.2007.4549851,
        author={Simon Fischer and Marina Petrova and Petri Mah\o{}nen and Berthold V\o{}cking},
        title={Distributed Load Balancing Algorithm for Adaptive Channel Allocation for Cognitive Radios},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CROWNCOM},
        year={2008},
        month={6},
        keywords={Channel allocation  Cognitive radio  Computer science  Frequency  Land mobile radio cellular systems  Load management  Multiaccess communication  Radio spectrum management  Telecommunication traffic  Wireless networks},
        doi={10.1109/CROWNCOM.2007.4549851}
    }
    
  • Simon Fischer
    Marina Petrova
    Petri Mahönen
    Berthold Vöcking
    Year: 2008
    Distributed Load Balancing Algorithm for Adaptive Channel Allocation for Cognitive Radios
    CROWNCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CROWNCOM.2007.4549851
Simon Fischer1, Marina Petrova2, Petri Mahönen2, Berthold Vöcking1
  • 1: RWTH Aachen University, Computer Science 1, 52056 Aachen, Germany
  • 2: RWTH Aachen University, Department of Wireless Networks, Kackertstrasse 9, 52072 Aachen, Germany

Abstract

The problem of channel allocation has been extensively studied in the context of cellular networks. There is a substantial amount of work in the field of dynamic frequency assignment for WLANs and mesh networks as well. The growing interest in the cognitive radio technology has made efficient spectrum allocation a problem that is attracting a lot of attention. In this paper we present two quite simple to implement, distributed algorithms for selecting channels, in cognitive radio environment, so that the load is distributed (smoothed) over them.