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

Research Article

Spectrum pool reassignment for wireless multi-hop relay systems

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CROWNCOM.2008.4562547,
        author={Ashish Pandharipande and Chin Keong Ho},
        title={Spectrum pool reassignment for wireless multi-hop relay systems},
        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.2008.4562547}
    }
    
  • Ashish Pandharipande
    Chin Keong Ho
    Year: 2008
    Spectrum pool reassignment for wireless multi-hop relay systems
    CROWNCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CROWNCOM.2008.4562547
Ashish Pandharipande1,*, Chin Keong Ho2,*
  • 1: Philips Research Europe - Eindhoven, High Tech Campus, 5656 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  • 2: Institute for Infocomm Research, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613
*Contact email: ashish.p@philips.com, hock@i2r.a-star.edu.sg

Abstract

We consider a wireless multi-hop relay system that operates on secondary sharing basis in licensed spectrum. The system employs OFDM-based spectrum pooling to avoid harmful interference to licensed systems. An OFDM-based spectrum pool comprises of a set of OFDM subchannels that correspond to white space spectrum regions. The proposed relay system comprises of a source node that transmits data to a destination node in multi-hops using multiple relay nodes. Communication over node pairs occurs on an available spectrum pool. At each receiving intermediate node, received data symbols are amplified, permuted and then forwarded on. Spectrum pool reassignment comprises determination of the permutation mapping at each intermediate node. We consider the problem of maximizing the system capacity by determining the optimum spectrum pool reassignment. We show that each relay can determine the optimum permutation mapping based on the {it{effective}} signal to noise ratios in the previous hops and the signal to noise ratio in the next hop, while preserving system optimality.