5th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities

Research Article

Channel Allocation for Dynamic Spectrum Access Cognitive Networks using Localized Island Genetic Algorithm

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976193,
        author={Mustafa ElNainay and Feng (Andrew)  Ge and Ying  Wang and Amr E.  Hilal and Yongsheng (Sam)  Shi and Allen B.  MacKenzie and Charles W.  Bostian},
        title={Channel Allocation for Dynamic Spectrum Access Cognitive Networks using Localized Island Genetic Algorithm},
        proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and  Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM},
        year={2009},
        month={5},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976193}
    }
    
  • Mustafa ElNainay
    Feng (Andrew) Ge
    Ying Wang
    Amr E. Hilal
    Yongsheng (Sam) Shi
    Allen B. MacKenzie
    Charles W. Bostian
    Year: 2009
    Channel Allocation for Dynamic Spectrum Access Cognitive Networks using Localized Island Genetic Algorithm
    TRIDENTCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976193
Mustafa ElNainay1,*, Feng (Andrew) Ge1,*, Ying Wang1,*, Amr E. Hilal1,*, Yongsheng (Sam) Shi1,*, Allen B. MacKenzie1,*, Charles W. Bostian1,*
  • 1: Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0111
*Contact email: ymustafa@vt.edu, gef@vt.edu, ywang06@vt.edu, amr.hilal@vt.edu, shiys@vt.edu, mackenab@vt.edu, bostian@vt.edu

Abstract

In our demonstration, we show how cognitive radios can be organized to form a cooperative ad-hoc cognitive radio network that utilizes the available spectrum opportunistically and efficiently through channel allocation while at the same time avoiding causing interference to primary users as they become active. Our cognitive radios are Software Defined Radios consisting of a Linux laptop and a Universal Software Radio Peripheral integrated with our extended implementation of the GNU Radio software package and our Localized island Genetic Algorithm implementation for the channel allocation.