Spectrum allocation and protocol based on cognitive acoustic technique in underwater networks

Abstract

In this paper, a strategy is developed for spectrum sharing among multiple cognitive users in underwater environment. This strategy requires all nodes to negotiate and reallocate the channels before sending data, and Hungarian method is used to maximize the sharing rewards. Simulation results show that the proposed strategy can avoid collisions between source-destination node pairs, and guarantee that the communication system gets maximum sharing rewards. Both the parameters of POMDP model and the number of available channels have influence on the system sharing rewards, and the rewards will increase when the channels have larger transition probabilities or more channels are available for communication. However, the channels with larger bandwidths can attract more nodes to access, and thus will lead to more collisions.

Keywords

underwater sensor network / cognitive underwater acoustic communication / spectrum sharing / Hungarian method

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