Performance Evaluation of Shortest Path Routing Strategy using Cognitive Radios

To have an efficient and successful communication in ad hoc networks, the use of Cognitive Radios (CR) has gained popularity in the recent past. These radios have spectrum sensing capabilities and thus can easily switch to free spectrum band. The use of such type of radios not only improves the routing performance but at the same time improves the overall throughput of the network. To show the same, we implement shortest path routing strategy in MATLAB-7.01. The routing scheme uses two types of radios one with spectrum sensing capability such as cognitive radios and the other which doesn’t. The following performance metrics such as Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), Delay, Success Ratio and Hop count are taken into consideration for measuring the efficiency. The result shows that a node having spectrum sensing capability outperforms the other one.