NDLI: The effectiveness of opportunistic spectrum access: a measurement study

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Author	Kone, Vinod Yang, Lei Zhao, Ben Y. Yang, Xue Zheng, Haitao
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Dynamic spectrum access networks are designed to allow today's bandwidth-hungry "secondary devices" to share spectrum allocated to legacy devices, or "primary users." The success of this wireless communication model relies on the availability of unused spectrum and the ability of secondary devices to utilize spectrum without disrupting transmissions of primary users. While recent measurement studies have shown that there is sufficient underutilized spectrum available, little is known about whether secondary devices can efficiently make use of available spectrum while minimizing disruptions to primary users. In this paper, we present the first comprehensive study on the presence of "usable" spectrum in opportunistic spectrum access systems, and whether sufficient spectrum can be extracted by secondary devices to support traditional networking applications. We use for our study fine-grain usage traces of a wide spectrum range (20 MHz-6 GHz) taken at four locations in Germany, the Netherlands, and Santa Barbara, CA. Our study shows that on average, 54% of spectrum is never used and 26% is only partially used. Surprisingly, in this 26% of partially used spectrum, secondary devices can utilize very little spectrum using conservative access policies to minimize interference with primary users. Even assuming an optimal access scheme and extensive statistical knowledge of primary-user access patterns, a user can only extract between 20%-30% of the total available spectrum. To provide better spectrum availability, we propose frequency bundling, where secondary devices build reliable channels by combining multiple unreliable frequencies into virtual frequency bundles. Analyzing our traces, we find that there is little correlation of spectrum availability across channels, and that bundling random channels together can provide sustained periods of reliable transmission with only short interruptions.
Starting Page	2005
Ending Page	2016
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10636692
DOI	10.1109/TNET.2012.2191571
Volume Number	20
Issue Number	6
Journal	IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2012-12-01
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Cognitive radio Measurement Software radio Wireless communication
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Computer Networks and Communications Software Computer Science Applications

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