Opportunistic routing(OR) is an effective way to guarantee transmission reliability in wireless multi-hop networks.However,little research focuses on transmission efficiency.Thus,an analytical model based on open queu...Opportunistic routing(OR) is an effective way to guarantee transmission reliability in wireless multi-hop networks.However,little research focuses on transmission efficiency.Thus,an analytical model based on open queuing network with Markov chains was proposed to evaluate the efficiency.By analyzing two typical ORs,we find duplicate transmission and collision avoidance overhead are the root reasons behind inefficiency.Therefore,a new scheme called dual priority cooperative opportunistic routing(DPCOR) was proposed.In DPCOR,forwarding candidates are configured with dual priority,which enables the network to classify forwarding candidates more effectively so as to reduce the back-off time and obtain more diversity gain.Theoretical analysis and simulation results show DPCOR achieves significant performance improvement with less time overhead compared with traditional routings and typical ORs.展开更多
Cognitive radio(CR) can bring about remarkable improvement in spectrum utilization.Different cognition cycles have been proposed in recent years.However,most of the existing works only emphasize functional or operatio...Cognitive radio(CR) can bring about remarkable improvement in spectrum utilization.Different cognition cycles have been proposed in recent years.However,most of the existing works only emphasize functional or operational aspects of cognition cycle,regardless of other indispensable aspects and the connection between them.To deal with the emerging situation of "data rich,information vague,knowledge poor" in cognitive radio networks(CRNs),we propose the hierarchical cognition cycle(HCC) as a new transdisciplinary research field in this paper.HCC investigates a fundamental problem,which is how to manage available resources in the complex environment to meet various demands in CRN.A comprehensive theoretical framework of HCC is established in terms of the core,the essence loop,the function loop,the operation loop,and the external loop of HCC.The reduction of uncertainty in CRN is studied and several new metrics in HCC are defined.Furthermore,a few research challenges ahead are presented as well.展开更多
基金supported by the National Science and Technology Major Projects under Grant No.2011ZX03001-007-03
文摘Opportunistic routing(OR) is an effective way to guarantee transmission reliability in wireless multi-hop networks.However,little research focuses on transmission efficiency.Thus,an analytical model based on open queuing network with Markov chains was proposed to evaluate the efficiency.By analyzing two typical ORs,we find duplicate transmission and collision avoidance overhead are the root reasons behind inefficiency.Therefore,a new scheme called dual priority cooperative opportunistic routing(DPCOR) was proposed.In DPCOR,forwarding candidates are configured with dual priority,which enables the network to classify forwarding candidates more effectively so as to reduce the back-off time and obtain more diversity gain.Theoretical analysis and simulation results show DPCOR achieves significant performance improvement with less time overhead compared with traditional routings and typical ORs.
基金supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China(973 Program) under Grant No.2009CB320400the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No.60932002,61172062,61301160the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu,China under Grant No.BK2011116
文摘Cognitive radio(CR) can bring about remarkable improvement in spectrum utilization.Different cognition cycles have been proposed in recent years.However,most of the existing works only emphasize functional or operational aspects of cognition cycle,regardless of other indispensable aspects and the connection between them.To deal with the emerging situation of "data rich,information vague,knowledge poor" in cognitive radio networks(CRNs),we propose the hierarchical cognition cycle(HCC) as a new transdisciplinary research field in this paper.HCC investigates a fundamental problem,which is how to manage available resources in the complex environment to meet various demands in CRN.A comprehensive theoretical framework of HCC is established in terms of the core,the essence loop,the function loop,the operation loop,and the external loop of HCC.The reduction of uncertainty in CRN is studied and several new metrics in HCC are defined.Furthermore,a few research challenges ahead are presented as well.
