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Title: An Underlay Control Channel for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Packet Design, Implementation, Analysis, and Evaluation

Abstract

This paper presents the design and implementation of an underlay control channel (UCC) that has recently been proposed for application in cognitive radio networks. The UCC builds its waveform based on filter bank multicarrier spread spectrum (FB-MC-SS) signaling. The use of spread spectrum signaling allows one to transmit UCC at a level well below noise temperature and hence, minimize taxation on the primary users. Moreover, the use of filter banks allows us to avoid those portions of the spectrum that are in use by the primary nodes. Hence, the UCC interference to the primary network will be very close to none. We propose a specific packet for UCC and develop algorithms for packet detection, timing acquisition and tracking, as well as channel estimation and equalization. We also present analytical equations that quantify the probability of false detection (when background noise is picked as a UCC packet) and the probability of missed detection (when a packet exists, but the receiver fails to detect it). Moreover, we present the detail of an implementation of the proposed transceiver on a software radio platform and compare our theoretical results with those from experiments.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [1]
  1. University of Utah
  2. Colmek Inc.
  3. Idaho National Laboratory
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
OSTI Identifier:
1481910
Report Number(s):
INL/CON-15-35958-Rev001
DOE Contract Number:  
AC07-05ID14517
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2016, San Francisco, CA, 04/10/2016 - 04/15/2016
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 - ENGINEERING; 97 - MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; Underlay Control Channel; Dynamic Spectrum Access; Preamble; Packet Detection; Mesh Networks; Filter Bank Multicarrier; Spread Spectrum

Citation Formats

Haddadin, Tarek, Laraway, Stephen Andrew, Majid, Arslan, Sibbett, Taylor, Wasden, Daryl Leon, Lo, Brandon F., Couch, David, Landon, Lloyd, Moradi, Hussein, and Farhang-Boroujeny, Behrouz. An Underlay Control Channel for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Packet Design, Implementation, Analysis, and Evaluation. United States: N. p., 2016. Web.
Haddadin, Tarek, Laraway, Stephen Andrew, Majid, Arslan, Sibbett, Taylor, Wasden, Daryl Leon, Lo, Brandon F., Couch, David, Landon, Lloyd, Moradi, Hussein, & Farhang-Boroujeny, Behrouz. An Underlay Control Channel for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Packet Design, Implementation, Analysis, and Evaluation. United States.
Haddadin, Tarek, Laraway, Stephen Andrew, Majid, Arslan, Sibbett, Taylor, Wasden, Daryl Leon, Lo, Brandon F., Couch, David, Landon, Lloyd, Moradi, Hussein, and Farhang-Boroujeny, Behrouz. 2016. "An Underlay Control Channel for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Packet Design, Implementation, Analysis, and Evaluation". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1481910.
@article{osti_1481910,
title = {An Underlay Control Channel for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Packet Design, Implementation, Analysis, and Evaluation},
author = {Haddadin, Tarek and Laraway, Stephen Andrew and Majid, Arslan and Sibbett, Taylor and Wasden, Daryl Leon and Lo, Brandon F. and Couch, David and Landon, Lloyd and Moradi, Hussein and Farhang-Boroujeny, Behrouz},
abstractNote = {This paper presents the design and implementation of an underlay control channel (UCC) that has recently been proposed for application in cognitive radio networks. The UCC builds its waveform based on filter bank multicarrier spread spectrum (FB-MC-SS) signaling. The use of spread spectrum signaling allows one to transmit UCC at a level well below noise temperature and hence, minimize taxation on the primary users. Moreover, the use of filter banks allows us to avoid those portions of the spectrum that are in use by the primary nodes. Hence, the UCC interference to the primary network will be very close to none. We propose a specific packet for UCC and develop algorithms for packet detection, timing acquisition and tracking, as well as channel estimation and equalization. We also present analytical equations that quantify the probability of false detection (when background noise is picked as a UCC packet) and the probability of missed detection (when a packet exists, but the receiver fails to detect it). Moreover, we present the detail of an implementation of the proposed transceiver on a software radio platform and compare our theoretical results with those from experiments.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1481910}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
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