High Throughput Spectrum-aware Routing for Cognitive Radio Based Ad-hoc Networks
Ashwin Sampath
Lei Yang
Lili Cao
Haitao Zheng
Ben Y. Zhao
Third International Conference on Cognitive
Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CROWNCOM)
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Paper Abstract
Dynamic spectrum networks enable fast deployment of new wireless
technologies by effectively utilizing allocated yet unused wireless
spectrum. By sensing and utilizing available wireless channels,
cognitive radio devices can provide high throughput, low latency communication.
Existing schemes for channel assignment suffer drawbacks in throughput
and reachability in the presence of location-dependent channel
availability. We propose SPEctrum-Aware Routing Protocol (SPEAR),
a robust and efficient distributed channel assignment and routing
protocol for dynamic spectrum networks based on two principles:
integrated spectrum and route discovery for robust multi-hop path
formation, and distributed path reservations to minimize inter- and
intra-flow interference. Through simulations and testbed measurements,
we show that SPEAR establishes robust paths in diverse spectrum
conditions and provides near-optimal throughput and end-to-end packet
delivery latency. SPEAR performs extremely fast flow setup and
teardowns, and can maintain interference-free flows in the presence of
variance in channel availability.