Yau, Kok-Lim Alvin, Komisarczuk, Peter and Teal, Paul D. (2009) Cognitive radio-based wireless sensor networks: conceptual design and open issues. In: IEEE 34th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2009), 20-23 Oct 2009, Zurich, Switzerland.

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Abstract

Traditional static spectrum allocation policies have been to grant each wireless service exclusive usage of certain frequency bands, leaving several spectrum bands unlicensed for industrial, scientific and medical purposes. The rapid proliferation of low-cost wireless applications in unlicensed spectrum bands has resulted in spectrum scarcity among those bands. Since most applications in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) utilize the unlicensed spectrum, network-wide performance of WSNs will inevitably degrade as their popularity increases. Sharing of under-utilized licensed spectrum among unlicensed devices is a promising solution to the spectrum scarcity issue. Cognitive Radio (CR) is a new paradigm in wireless communication that allows sensor nodes as the unlicensed users or Secondary Users (SUs) to detect and use the under-utilized licensed spectrum temporarily. Given that the licensed or Primary Users (PUs) are oblivious to the presence of SUs, the SUs access the licensed spectrum opportunistically without interfering the PUs, while improving their own performance. In this paper, we propose an approach to build Cognitive Radio-based Wireless Sensor Networks (CR-WSNs). We believe that CR-WSN is the next-generation WSN. Realizing that both WSNs and CR present unique challenges to the design of CR-WSNs, we provide an overview and conceptual design of WSNs from the perspective of CR. The open issues are discussed to motivate new research interests in this field. We also present our method to achieving context-awareness and intelligence, which are the key components in CR networks, to address an open issue in CR-WSN.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
ISSN:	0742-1303
ISBN:	9781424444885
Identifier:	10.1109/LCN.2009.5355016
Page Range:	pp. 955-962
Identifier:	10.1109/LCN.2009.5355016
Keywords:	Wireless sensor networks, Chromium, White spaces, Cognitive radio, Degradation, Intelligent sensors, FCC, Frequency, Conferences, Web and internet services
Subjects:	Computing
Depositing User:	Vani Aul
Date Deposited:	21 Mar 2014 14:54
Last Modified:	28 Aug 2021 07:05
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/785

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