Cognitive information delivery in geo-location database based cognitive radio networks

For the problem of spectrum scarcity and wastage, cognitive radio CR technology provides a solution to utilizing the vacant spectrum more efficiently. As one of the most promising techniques to obtain the cognitive information in TV white spaces, geo-location database approach has attracted a lot of recent attentions, with its goal of enhancing the efficiency of spectrum usage and avoiding the interference to TV receivers. However, existing works mainly focus on the construction and applications of geo-location database, and seldom consider how to deliver the cognitive information from the database to TV band devices. In this paper, we investigate the tradeoff between increasing the accuracy of cognitive information delivery and reducing the overhead. We design two mesh fusion algorithms to reduce the redundancy of cognitive information and improve the efficiency of cognitive information delivery. Finally, we verify our analysis and evaluate the efficiency of the proposed mesh fusion algorithms through numerical studies. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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