4th International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications

Research Article

Cognitive radio-enabled distributed cross-layer optimization via genetic algorithms

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CROWNCOM.2009.5189007,
        author={Si Chen and Alexander M.  Wyglinski},
        title={Cognitive radio-enabled distributed cross-layer optimization via genetic algorithms},
        proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CROWNCOM},
        year={2009},
        month={8},
        keywords={Cognitive Radio Genetic Algorithm Distributed Optimization NC-OFDM},
        doi={10.1109/CROWNCOM.2009.5189007}
    }
    
  • Si Chen
    Alexander M. Wyglinski
    Year: 2009
    Cognitive radio-enabled distributed cross-layer optimization via genetic algorithms
    CROWNCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CROWNCOM.2009.5189007
Si Chen1,2,*, Alexander M. Wyglinski1,2,*
  • 1: Wireless Innovation Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • 2: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA
*Contact email: chensi@ece.wpi.edu, alexw@ece.wpi.edu

Abstract

In this paper, we propose two optimization approaches based on genetic algorithms in addition to several assisting mechanisms for making these approaches more efficient and robust in actual network implementations. Using the fact that a cognitive radio is capable of sensing the prevailing environmental conditions and automatically adapting its operating parameters in order to enhance system (and potentially network) performance, the proposed approaches will optimize individual wireless devices using partial operating parameter and environmental information from adjacent devices within the network. Assuming stationary wireless nodes, with all wireless links employing non-contiguous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (NCOFDM) in order to enable dynamic spectrum access (DSA), the proposed approach will attempt to simultaneously minimize the bit error rate, minimize out-of-band (OOB) interference, and maximize overall throughput using a multi-objective fitness function. Simulation results show that the proposed procedure is able to reduce BER by one order of magnitude.