Cognitive Decision Making Process Supervising the Radio Dynamic Reconfiguration

Cognitive radio is a technological concept pushing for the introduction of intelligent radio operation going beyond system adaptation and reconfiguration on the basis of simple criteria and rules. Insofar, a rather limited amount of work has been published on the cognitive mechanisms that should be embedded into the communicating equipments to achieve such an intelligent behavior. Towards filling this gap, this paper presents an innovative optimization algorithm driving the decision making process supervising the cognitive radio reconfiguration. This cognitive algorithm, called RALFE for "Reason And Learn From Experience", presents interesting features since it allows to perform autonomous decision making with regard to multiple, possibly conflicting, operational objectives in the face of an uncertain environment. The proposed approach is illustrated for a case of cognitive waveform design.

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