Journal on Communications ›› 2014, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (4): 65-73.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-436x.2014.04.008

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CAM-MAC: channel aware multi-channel MAC protocol in cognitive radio network

Liang WANG,Min SHENG,Yan ZHANG,Xiao MA   

  1. State Key Lab of ISN & Information Science Institute, Xidian Univ., Xi'an 710071, China
  • Online:2014-04-25 Published:2017-07-03
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National Key Basic Research Program of China(973 Program);The 111 Project;The National Science and Technology Major Project;The Special Research Fund of State Key Laboratory;The Natural Science Basic Research Plan of Shaanxi Province;The National High Technology R&D Program of China(863 Pro-gram)

Abstract:

For multi-channel cognitive radio network (CRN), the inconsistent transmission conditions of common control channel (CCC) and data channels deteriorate the performance of cognitive MAC protocols. Focusing on this problem, a novel channel aware multi-channel cognitive MAC protocol (CAM-MAC) was proposed, which consists of two-level four-way handshaking mechanism. The first level two-way handshaking was optimized to reduce the mean successful reservation time on CCC. The other level two-way handshaking was implemented by a cross-layer approach to adopt the adaptive transmission based on instantaneous SNR on each Nakagami fading data channel to improve the data rate. These mechanisms improve the performance of CAM-MAC. Simulation results validate the throughput of CAM-MAC outper-forms that of the existing one, about 50% improvement in the throughput under certain conditions.

Key words: multichannel MAC protocol;, adaptive transmission, cognitive radio networks, dynamic spectrum access

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