Guaranteed rendezvous algorithms for cognitive radio networks

Li Gou, Xiaohua Xu, Chongqing Zhang, Min Song

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Abstract

Rendezvous is a blind process establishing a communication link on a common channel between a pair of nodes in cognitive radio networks. We propose two guaranteed rendezvous algorithms for cognitive radio networks under both single-radio and multi-radio scenarios with an asynchronous setting. For single-radio scenario, each cycle length is a prime number associated with a channel hopping sequence. The rendezvous can be guaranteed as long as the IDs of the two nodes are different. For multi-radio scenario, we propose a cycle length and rotation based rendezvous algorithm. Each node generates a channel hopping sequence with only one cycle length. Then these radios of each nodes rotate on the generated sequence with different rotation numbers at each hopping cycle. The rendezvous between two nodes is guaranteed as long as they have different cycle lengths or the same cycle length with different number of rotations. We conduct simulations on three metrics and the results show that the proposed algorithms outperform the existing ones.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)111-127
Number of pages17
JournalChina Communications
Volume15
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2018

Keywords

  • blind rendezvous
  • channel hopping
  • cognitive radio networks
  • cycle length

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