Cognitive radio network in vehicular ad hoc network (VANET): a survey

Cognitive radio network and vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) are recent emerging concepts in wireless networking. Cognitive radio network obtains knowledge of its operational geographical environment to manage sharing of spectrum between primary and secondary users, while VANET shares emergency safety messages among vehicles to ensure safety of users on the road. Cognitive radio network is employed in VANET to ensure the efficient use of spectrum, as well as to support VANET’s deployment. Random increase and decrease of spectrum users, unpredictable nature of VANET, high mobility, varying interference, security, packet scheduling, and priority assignment are the challenges encountered in a typical cognitive VANET environment. This paper provides survey and critical analysis on different challenges of cognitive radio VANET, with discussion on the open issues, challenges, and performance metrics for different cognitive radio VANET applications

Cognitive radio network in vehicular ad hoc network (VANET): a survey

Cognitive radio network and vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) are recent emerging concepts in wireless networking. Cognitive radio network obtains knowledge of its operational geographical environment to manage sharing of spectrum between primary and secondary users, while VANET shares emergency safety messages among vehicles to ensure safety of users on the road. Cognitive radio network is employed in VANET to ensure the efficient use of spectrum, as well as to support VANET’s deployment. Random increase and decrease of spectrum users, unpredictable nature of VANET, high mobility, varying interference, security, packet scheduling, and priority assignment are the challenges encountered in a typical cognitive VANET environment. This paper provides survey and critical analysis on different challenges of cognitive radio VANET, with discussion on the open issues, challenges, and performance metrics for different cognitive radio VANET applications

Cognitive radio network in vehicular ad hoc network (VANET): a survey

Cognitive radio network and vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) are recent emerging concepts in wireless networking. Cognitive radio network obtains knowledge of its operational geographical environment to manage sharing of spectrum between primary and secondary users, while VANET shares emergency safety messages among vehicles to ensure safety of users on the road. Cognitive radio network is employed in VANET to ensure the efficient use of spectrum, as well as to support VANET’s deployment. Random increase and decrease of spectrum users, unpredictable nature of VANET, high mobility, varying interference, security, packet scheduling, and priority assignment are the challenges encountered in a typical cognitive VANET environment. This paper provides survey and critical analysis on different challenges of cognitive radio VANET, with discussion on the open issues, challenges, and performance metrics for different cognitive radio VANET applications

A Survey on the Communication Protocols and Security in Cognitive Radio Networks

A cognitive radio (CR) is a radio that can change its transmission parameters based on the perceived availability of the spectrum bands in its operating environment. CRs support dynamic spectrum access and can facilitate a secondary unlicensed user to efficiently utilize the available underutilized spectrum allocated to the primary licensed users. A cognitive radio network (CRN) is composed of both the secondary users with CR-enabled radios and the primary users whose radios need not be CR-enabled. Most of the active research conducted in the area of CRNs has been so far focused on spectrum sensing, allocation and sharing. There is no comprehensive review paper available on the strategies for medium access control (MAC), routing and transport layer protocols, and the appropriate representative solutions for CRNs. In this paper, we provide an exhaustive analysis of the various techniques/mechanisms that have been proposed in the literature for communication protocols (at the MAC, routing and transport layers), in the context of a CRN, as well as discuss in detail several security attacks that could be launched on CRNs and the countermeasure solutions that have been proposed to avoid or mitigate them. This paper would serve as a good comprehensive review and analysis of the strategies for MAC, routing and transport protocols and security issues for CRNs as well as would lay a strong foundation for someone to further delve onto any particular aspect in greater depth

Qualité de service dans des environnements réseaux mobiles, contraints et hétérogènes

Les télécommunications sans fil ont connu ces dernières années un immense succès à tel point que le spectre des fréquences est désormais surchargé et nécessite la disponibilité de nouvelles ressources. Pour répondre à ce besoin, des techniques de réutilisation dynamique du spectre ont alors vu le jour sous la dénomination de radio cognitive. Elles consistent à partager de manière opportuniste et efficace certaines fréquences ayant été initialement allouées à d'autres systèmes. Cette thèse se place dans le contexte de réseaux sans fil tactiques hétérogènes comportant des segments de radios cognitives. La difficulté provient alors de la garantie de qualité de service de bout en bout : respect du débit négocié, du délai et de la gigue. Nous nous sommes tout d'abord intéressés au contrôle d'admission dans ce type de réseaux en proposant une méthode de calcul de bande passante résiduelle de bout en bout s'appuyant sur un algorithme de complexité polynomiale et pouvant être implanté de manière distribuée. Nous nous sommes ensuite concentrés sur le routage en proposant une nouvelle métrique tenant compte des particularités de ce type de réseaux. Enfin, nous nous focalisons sur la thématique du routage à contraintes multiples en étudiant et implantant en environnement réel des algorithmes d'approximation proposés dans la littérature. ABSTRACT : The unprecedented success of wireless telecommunication systems has resulted in the wireless spectrum becoming a scarce resource. Cognitive Radio systems have been proposed as the enabling technology allowing unlicensed equipments to opportunistically access the licensed spectrum when not in use by the licensed users. The focus of this thesis is on heterogeneous tactical networks deploying cognitive radios in parts or in their entirety. Such networks can be organized in multiple sub-networks, each characterized by a specific topology, medium access scheme and spectrum access policy. As a result, providing end-to-end Quality of Service guarantees in terms of bandwidth, delay and jitter, emerges as a key challenge. We first address the admission control in multi-hop cognitive radio networks and propose a polynomial time algorithm that can be implemented in a distributed fashion for estimating the end-to-end bandwidth. Then, we focus on routing and propose a new metric that takes into account the specifics of such networks. Finally, as quality of service requirements can be expressed using multiple metrics, we turn our attention to multi-constrained routing and implement on a real testbed low complexity approximation algorithms