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

Research Article

State of the Art in Opportunistic Spectrum Access Medium Access Control Design

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CROWNCOM.2008.4562475,
        author={Przemyslaw Pawelczak and Sofie Pollin and Hoi-Sheung Wilson So and Ali Motamedi and Ahmad Bahai and R. Venkatesha Prasad and Ramin Hekmat},
        title={State of the Art in Opportunistic Spectrum Access Medium Access Control Design},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CROWNCOM},
        year={2008},
        month={7},
        keywords={Opportunistic Spectrum Access Medium Access Control Intelligent Spectrum Management},
        doi={10.1109/CROWNCOM.2008.4562475}
    }
    
  • Przemyslaw Pawelczak
    Sofie Pollin
    Hoi-Sheung Wilson So
    Ali Motamedi
    Ahmad Bahai
    R. Venkatesha Prasad
    Ramin Hekmat
    Year: 2008
    State of the Art in Opportunistic Spectrum Access Medium Access Control Design
    CROWNCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CROWNCOM.2008.4562475
Przemyslaw Pawelczak1,*, Sofie Pollin2,*, Hoi-Sheung Wilson So3,*, Ali Motamedi4,*, Ahmad Bahai5,*, R. Venkatesha Prasad1,*, Ramin Hekmat1,*
  • 1: Department of EEMCS, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 4, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands
  • 2: Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4-1770, USA , Interuniversity Micro-electronics Center (IMEC), Kapeldreef 75, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
  • 3: Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4-1770, USA
  • 4: Department of EE, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9515, USA
  • 5: Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4-1770, USA , Department of EE, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9515, USA
*Contact email: P.Pawelczak@ewi.tudelft.nl, pollins@eecs.berkeley.edu, so@eecs.berkeley.edu, motamedi@stanford.edu, bahai@stanford.edu, vprasad@ewi.tudelft.nl, r.hekmat@ewi.tudelft.nl

Abstract

Opportunistic Spectrum Access (OSA) allows unlicensed secondary networks to share licensed spectrum in space and time, but only when licensed users are not using the spectrum. Thus this novel spectrum management technique started drawing the attention of researchers recently. Although many interesting approaches have been proposed, most techniques are early proposals that often only cover a subset of the problems related to OSA. In this paper, we give an extensive overview of Medium Access Control design challenges specific to OSA, while discussing the main approaches proposed so far in the literature. We give an extensive survey of protocols proposed and discuss which features are not explored yet and which one need to be looked at more carefully.