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Realisation of Cognitive Radio:Issues and Challenges


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For last two decades, the demand for wireless spectrum has been increasing rapidly with tremendous developments in the telecom industry. There also has been huge growth in flow of multimedia traffic over the last decade. Thus, the demand for additional bandwidth is increasing exponentially despite the fact that the electromagnetic spectrum is a finite resource. On the other hand, spectrum occupancy is found to be quiet low in most of the allocated bands. Thus, the under-utilization of the precious spectrum is unaffordable if persistent growth of new and existing wireless services are to be sustained. Cognitive radio (CR) is a future technology initiated by many research organizations and academic institutions to increase the spectrum utilization of underutilized spectrum channels to ameliorate scarcity problem of valuable electromagnetic spectrum. There exists number of issues and challenges in designing and implementation of the cognitive radio. These issues need to be rigorously resolved before a cognitive radio is realised.

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Cognitive Radio, Spectrum Sensing, Spectrum Management, Spectrum Mobility, Spectrum Sharing, Primary User, Secondary User.
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Authors

Nisar A. Lala
Division of Agricultural Engineering, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir Srinagar, J&K, India
G. M. Mir
Division of Agricultural Engineering, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir Srinagar, J&K, India
Altaf A. Balkhi
Division of Agricultural Engineering, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir Srinagar, J&K, India

Abstract


For last two decades, the demand for wireless spectrum has been increasing rapidly with tremendous developments in the telecom industry. There also has been huge growth in flow of multimedia traffic over the last decade. Thus, the demand for additional bandwidth is increasing exponentially despite the fact that the electromagnetic spectrum is a finite resource. On the other hand, spectrum occupancy is found to be quiet low in most of the allocated bands. Thus, the under-utilization of the precious spectrum is unaffordable if persistent growth of new and existing wireless services are to be sustained. Cognitive radio (CR) is a future technology initiated by many research organizations and academic institutions to increase the spectrum utilization of underutilized spectrum channels to ameliorate scarcity problem of valuable electromagnetic spectrum. There exists number of issues and challenges in designing and implementation of the cognitive radio. These issues need to be rigorously resolved before a cognitive radio is realised.

Keywords


Cognitive Radio, Spectrum Sensing, Spectrum Management, Spectrum Mobility, Spectrum Sharing, Primary User, Secondary User.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.13005/ojcst%2F10.04.15