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INTRODUCTION
Interest is rapidly growing in lowering barriers to spectrum access and improving spectrum efficiency. The introduction of software-defined radios and the realization that new levels of computational performance applied to radios creates exciting new possibilities for wireless devices. This has resulted in explosive growth in interest in cognitive radios. The term cognitive radio was first used by Joe Mitola. The concept and the term cognitive radio quickly caught the interest of many in the communications field. Cognitive radio technology enables a number of capabilities to improve the usefulness and effectiveness of wireless communications. Those functions include: Exploit locally vacant or unused radio channels, or ranges of radio spectrum, to provide new paths to spectrum access. Roam across borders and perform self-adjustment to stay in compliance regulations. Negotiate as a broker on behalf of the radio user with multiple service providers to give network access best matched to the user needs at the lowest cost. Adapt itself without user intervention to save battery power or to reduce interference to other users. Make use of location awareness to ensure that radio emissions do not interfere with licensed broadcasters. Understand and follow the actions and choices taken by their users to become more responsive and anticipate user needs over time. Formulate and issue queries, one radio to another. Execute commands sent by another radio. Fuse contradictory or complementary information. with all local radio operations and emissions

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This proliferation of the term cognitive radio is validation of the strong interest in the industry and government for communications systems that can operate with more intelligence and improved performance. This interest leads to a need for a common terminology for manufacturers, regulators, researchers, and users all to be able to advance the development of cognitive radios.

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CHAPTER 2

DEFINITION
Tautologically, a cognitive radio could be defined as A radio that is cognitive.In the absence of a turing test for radios, applying this definition is nontrivial and implies a level of functionality that many researchers consider excessive. Indeed, while many researchers and public officials agree that upgrading a software radios control processes will add significant value to software radio, there is currently some disagreement over how much cognition is needed which results in disagreement over the precise definition of a cognitive radio. The following provides some of the more prominently offered definitions of cognitive radio. In the 1999 paper that first coined the term cognitive radio, Joseph Mitola defines a cognitive radio as A radio that employs model based reasoning to achieve a specified level of competence in radio-related domains.However, Simon Haykin defines a cognitive radio as An intelligent wireless communication system that is aware of its surrounding environment, and uses the methodology of understanding-by-building to learn from the environment and adapt its internal states to statistical variations in the incoming RF stimuli by making corresponding changes in certain operating parameters in real-time, with two primary objectives in mind: Highly reliable communications whenever and wherever needed; Efficient utilization of the radio spectrum. Cognitive radio (CR) is type of wireless communication which is used to receive and identify the channels of communication sharply that which channels can be operated or which cannot be operated. It progress immediately into available channels although preventing occupied anyone. This radiofrequency (RF) spectrum is available for the optimistic users and decreasing the interference to another client. Cognitive radio is capable to identify its geological area, recognize and approve its user, encode and decode the signals, awareness of connecting the

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wireless devices in process and manage the power of output and intonation components.

2.1. Types of cognitive radio (CR)

Depending on the set of parameters taken into account in deciding on transmission and reception changes, and for historical reasons, we can distinguish certain types of cognitive radio. The main two are:

Full Cognitive Radio: Radio in which every possible parameter

observable by a wireless node or network is taken into account. Also known as Mitolas Radio.

Spectrum Sensing Cognitive Radio: Radio in which only the radio

frequency spectrum is considered. Also, depending on the parts of the spectrum available for cognitive

radio, we can distinguish:

Licensed Band Cognitive Radio: cognitive radio which is capable

of using bands assigned to licensed users, apart from unlicensed bands, such as U-NII band or ISM band.

Unlicensed Band Cognitive Radio: Cognitive radio which can

only utilize unlicensed parts of radiofrequency spectrum.

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CHAPTER 3

FUNCTIONS
3.1. Spectrum Sensing
Spectrum sensing refers to the action of a wireless device measuring characteristics of received signals, which may include RF energy levels as part of the process of determining if a particular section of spectrum is occupied. Sensing in the spectrum domain is the detection of some signal features indicating the presence (or absence) of other users/services. These can include signal energy, periodic features (pilots, preambles, and chip rates), likely identity of the other users/services, estimation of interference-tolerance capabilities and estimation of the duration of spectrum occupancy. Spectrum sensing techniques is divided into three components:-

1. Transmitter detection: The capability must be in cognitive radio

to identify the signals which come from basic transmitter either is nearby in specific spectrum. There are many accesses are suggested:

Coordinated filter recognition Force or power recognition Cyclostationary characteristics recognition

2. Cooperative detection: it specifies the methods of spectrum

sensing at which information is included to detect the main user from multiple users of cognitive radio.

3. Interference based detection.

3.2. Spectrum Management

Capturing the finest accessible spectrum to fulfill the communication needs of the user. Cognitive radio must have the capability to settle on the finest spectrum band to fulfill the needs of quality of advantage over the

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accessible spectrum bands, although spectrum authority affairs are necessary for Cognitive radios. These management affairs can be divided as:

Spectrum/Range analysis Spectrum/Range decision

3.3. Spectrum Mobility

When cognitive radio user interacts the frequency of process is called spectrum mobility. The main objective of cognitive radio networks is to use in energetic manner as a spectrum that will be available from the radio stations to process in finest frequency band, retain faultless communication needs throughout the switch to improved spectrum.

3.4. Spectrum Sharing

Spectrum sharing is the method where spectrum that has been assigned to a license holder is made available to other users on a secondary, noninterfering basis. The secondary users may have arrangements with the license holders that are arrived at through some kind of cooperation agreement. The secondary users may, by following a set of rules designed to prevent the possibility of interference, access the spectrum either with the cooperation of, or alternatively without the knowledge of license holders depending on the relevant policies and protocols.

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CHAPTER 4

LEVELS OF FUNCTIONALITY
The differences in the definitions for cognitive radio can be largely attributed to differences in the expectations of the functionality that a cognitive radio will exhibit. Joseph Mitola considers the nine levels of increasing cognitive radio functionality shown in the table 4.1, ranging from a software radio to a complex self-aware radio. Table 4.1: Levels of cognitive radio functionality. LEVEL 0 1 CAPABILITY Pre-programmed Goal Driven COMMENTS A software radio Choose waveform according to goal. Requires environment awareness 2 Context Awareness Knowledge of what the User is trying to do 3 Radio Aware Knowledge of radio and network components, Environment Models 4 Capable of Planning Analyze situation(level2&3) to determine goals(QoS,power), Follows prescribed plans 5 Conducts Negotiations Settle on a plan with another radio 6 Learn Environment Autonomously determines structure of environment

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7 8

Adapts Plans Adapts Protocols

Generates new goals Proposes and negotiates new protocols

As a reference for how a cognitive radio could achieve these levels of functionality, Mitola introduces the cognition cycle, shown in Figure 4.1, as a top-level control loop for cognitive radio. In the cognition cycle, a radio receives information about its operating environment (Outside world) through direct observation or through signaling. This information is then evaluated (Orient) to determine its importance. Based on this valuation, the radio determines its alternatives (Plan) and chooses an alternative (Decide) in a way that presumably would improve the valuation. Assuming a waveform change was deemed necessary, the radio then implements the alternative (Act) by adjusting its resources and performing the appropriate signaling. These changes are then reflected in the interference profile presented by the cognitive radio in the Outside world. As part of this process, the radio uses these observations and decisions to improve the operation of the radio (Learn), perhaps by creating new modeling states, generating new alternatives, or creating new valuations.

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Figure 4.1: Cognition Cycle

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CHAPTER 5

ARCHITECTURE
Cognitive radios are capable of making decisions and selecting or modifying the operating parameters of a radio. In the most abstract view of the Cognitive Radio Working Group, there are two major subsystems in a cognitive SDR radio; a cognitive unit that makes decisions based on various inputs and a flexible SDR unit whose operating software provides a range of possible operating modes. The Cognitive Radio Working Group developed a conceptual model that uses a layered architecture where the SDR radio is at the base and is closest to the physical RF channel. The cognitive layer is above the SDR layer and below the application layer. One goal of this architecture is to hide the complexity of the SDR radio from the applications. The combination of a cognitive "engine" and the SDR together comprise a "cognitive radio" or a cognitive SDR radio. The cognitive layer acts to optimize or control the SDR with minimal user interaction or oversight. In this model the cognitive engine accepts inputs, makes decisions and inferences from a pool of current and historical contextual knowledge and issues control or configuration

commands to the flexible-architecture SDR radio. The basic function of a cognitive radio is matching the radio link requirements of a higher layer application or user need with the available device, spectral and infrastructure resources. The cognitive layer could also be aware of the data rates and quality of service requirements of the application. The cognitive layer would be aware of the radios hardware resources and capabilities. It would store an inventory of the software modulation schemes available and the capabilities and characteristics of these modulation and spectrum access schemes. The cognitive layer could know the measurement utilities available to allow it to collect information to feed the decision process.

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In this model the rules or decision algorithms are stored separately from the engines to enable them to be updated easily. The cognitive function is further separated into two parts as shown in the block diagram in Figure 5.1 below. The first labeled the cognitive engine tries to find a solution or optimize a performance goal based on inputs received from other parts of the radio. These other parts can supply information that is the basis for awareness as described above. The second engine is the policy engine and is used to ensure that the solution is in compliance with regulatory rules and other policies external to the radio. Each of these engines has a separate rule-set or algorithm-set. The reason we have shown them separately is that these subsystems perform two different tasks. The policy engine isolates policy or regulatory rules from the operational capability rules of the radio as regulatory policies apply to all radios. The purpose of the policy engine is to veto, if necessary, adaptation choices made by the cognitive engine. Cognitive rules are likely to be written to be compatible with the specific capabilities of a particular radio. The cognitive engine strives to find ways to adapt the radio to best meet a goal or a set of priorities based in awareness of both internal and external conditions. This view is a conceptual one and implementations may in practice share processing hardware and memory. The cognitive layer, using the available radio resources, could monitor RF environment and gain awareness of external users and the presence of unused spectrum. It could monitor and be aware of the presence of relay nodes or infrastructure access points that the radio could use. It could also utilize other criteria in the decision process, such as whether to maximize battery life or minimize operating expense. It is envisioned that in the future, advanced cognitive SDR radios could learn and innovate, meaning they test new hypotheses, store and recall adaptations that resulted in successful outcomes in addition to those that may not have improved performance in future, similar situations.
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The inputs come from both the lower SDR layer and from the upper application layers. The SDR, or special monitoring subsystems, provide inputs including the status and current capabilities of the radio and the results of spectrum scans. The upper layers will provide inputs including information about the desired data rates, QoS and inputs from other sensors such as GPS based location. The decisions can be simple or complex. The decision making activity can also make use of some memory along with the external inputs. This makes it possible for the radio to learn and possibly improve the quality or speed of its decisions. Decisions can be derived using declarative languages combined with inference engines. In other systems, decision systems can be implemented using game theoretic or genetic algorithms. Of course, simple ifthen-else decision trees can be implemented in imperative languages such as C or Java.

Figure 5.1: Conceptual view of Cognitive Radio Architecture

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A less flexible hardware radio may have some degree of cognitive ability but will be limited by the ability of hardware to adapt to different frequencies and modulations. A radio that can operate on only a handful of channels in a single band using a single modulation will have limited interference avoidance ability if all the channels are occupied. A radio that can only connect to a single radio network cannot change modes to avoid congestion. To the extent allowed by the RF hardware a cognitive SDR radio may be capable of multitasking and can simultaneously receive and spectrum scan. The interface between the cognitive layer and the application layer can be a simple known list or array of available modes or a highly abstracted interface. The abstracted interface of the cognitive layer would appear to applications in terms of a client requesting a communications service possibly with particular latencies or data rates.

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CHAPTER 6

FEATURES
6.1. Energy (battery) awareness
Refers to including knowledge or awareness of the remaining amount of energy in a radios power supply(e.g. available battery charge) to influence decisions about which operating mode or frequency to use.

6.2. Spatial awareness

A very significant role for a CR may be viewed as personal assistant. One of its key missions is facilitating communication over wireless links. The opposite key mission is impending communication when appropriate. As an example most people do not want to be disturbed while in church, in an important meeting. A CR could learn to classify its situation into user interruptible and user non interruptible. The radio accepting aural inputs can classify a long running exchange in which only one person is speaking at a time as a meeting or classroom and autonomously put itself into vibration only mode. If the radio senses its primary user is speaking continuously or even 50% of time, it may autonomously turn off the vibration mode.

6.3. Self-correction, Fault tolerance

Refers to the ability of a radio to discover that, for some reason, something is wrong, and that it can reconfigure itself and thereby recover and re-establish communications.

6.4. Recovery after incorrect decision, error condition sensing

It is expected that cognitive radios will in some situations adapt their operating characteristics in a way that worsens performance or possibly increases the likelihood of causing interference. Decisions should be

followed up with checks where possible to detect these situations and initiate corrective action. Awareness of error conditions could be part of the input set of the cognitive engine.
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6.5. Negotiation
Negotiation refers to radios that can adapt to new operating characteristics based not only on knowledge of their own priorities and goals and environmental state. Radios and networks that can share knowledge and negotiate with each other to select mutually optimal operating characteristics may perform better. A negotiation language that can express the concepts of and offer and counter-offer may prove useful

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CHAPTER 7

ADVANTAGES
Cognitive radios promise many new and exciting benefits for radio users. Software defined radios are a natural platform on which to build in new cognitive features. In this section, we describe some of the benefits of cognitive radios and how software defined radios are a natural step in the development of cognitive radios.

7.1. Interoperability and Coexistence

Interoperability refers to the need for users, often from different government agencies or offices, to be able to communicate even though they have been issued wireless devices that may be incompatible in assigned operating frequency range or type of air interface employed. In public safety applications, cognitive radios aware of the identity of other first responders, or more specifically, aware of the other types of first responder radios that are present, can improve communications in emergency situations. Frequency agile and protocol flexible software-defined radio platforms with cognitive capabilities are potentially capable of reducing interoperability issues by providing seamless system operation in highly fragmented, multi-

terminal/multi-frequency communication environments. As a result, cognitive radios enable seamless communication between and among different first response teams such as firemen, policemen and ambulance services something that has become even more important in our current world. A cognitive SDR radio can observe the communications environment to gain awareness of the radio signal environment and adapt its operating parameters to connect with other systems or radios present. The military services could also benefit from reliable

communication between different organizations employing incompatible communication equipment. Joint and combined military operations benefit from radios that are able to configure themselves to provide seamless communication.
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Unrestricted roaming for consumers using different types of wireless services such as GSM, CDMA, and WCDMA in addition to WLAN networks could become more common with the introduction of cognitive radios and systems. These consumer radios could listen for the presence of access networks and select the carrier that best meets a users needs. Management of identity and authentication are also important aspects of interoperability. The identity of the users of radios who wish to join a network needs to be assured. Authentication that the devices themselves are suitable and authorized for use on a network is critical. The SDR Forum Public Safety SIG has explored some of these issues in greater detail and has published a document describing improvements in interoperability.

7.2. Reduced demand on user, reduced user control burden

Another potential benefit of cognitive radios is the reduction and simplification of the tasks needed to set up and use a radio. Cognitive radios aware of a users goals and priorities, and capable of independently acting, could simplify the operation of radios. A flexible SDR radio needs some form of input or command to set the operating frequency, power level, modulation, bandwidth, and possibly many other radio parameters. For example, filters may need to be tuned and different subsystems may need to be switched in to enable certain operating modes. Software routines may need to be selected, loaded and run to facilitate operation using a new waveform. Enhanced

flexibility in a wireless device offers a greater number of possible options and settings. There is value in significantly reducing the burden of technical knowhow on the part of the user using cognitive functionality. Users should be able to utilize the capability of the radio with a minimum level of detail over radio operating parameters, with the radio making appropriate choices among options.

7.3. Greater spectrum efficiency through improved access

The term spectrum efficiency, as used in the SDR Forum Cognitive Radio Working Group, refers to increasing the efficiency of how spectrum is assigned and used to support one or more wireless services in one or more
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geographical locations in either a concurrent or time-based manner. New methods provide ways of accessing spectrum that would have been excluded by regulatory policy and licensing rules in the past. One scenario involves

use of licensed spectrum by unlicensed users using protocols and etiquettes to minimize the potential for interference to licensed users. Wireless devices that are aware of their spectral environment provide benefits by being able to access previously unused, unavailable, or restricted spectrum segments that may be available for usage in other geographical areas or under other regulatory regimes. Spectral awareness may enable the use of this spectrum without causing interference to the radios originally operating in the spectrum. Radio spectrum is perceived to be a scarce resource: there may be a shortage of spectrum available for dedicated allocation without displacing current users. Interest is high to find ways to use spectrum more efficiently. Utilization levels vary widely between services and geographic areas, with some having substantial amounts of white space, or unused spectrum segments at any point in time. Radios capable of exploiting unused or lightlyused spectrum without introducing interference will improve efficiency of spectrum utilization.

Figure 7.1: Opportunistic spectrum utilization To improve spectrum utilization, opportunistic spectrum utilization has been proposed wherein devices occupy spectrum that has been left vacant. An illustrative example of opportunistic spectrum utilization is shown in Figure 7.1. In the left half of the figure, a pair of transmitted carrier signals is present in the lower frequency bands while a random access system and a TDMA
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system are operating in the upper bands. After observing the spectrum holes points in time and frequency where spectrum is underutilized opportunistic devices could fill in these holes to support concurrent services as illustrated in the diagram on the right.

7.4. Improved application interface for communications tasks

A Cognitive radio can provide communications services that allow users to designate a priority or a value for each particular communications task. For example, email might be given a higher priority than streaming video. Cognitive radios could be aware of the requirements that different applications on a radio have for data throughput rates, latencies, and quality of service (QoS) levels. These services become increasingly important as users multiplex applications (e.g. streaming audio and video while simultaneously text messaging) and executing applications in parallel. The cognitive SDR can support communications by using prioritized connection use rules (i.e. drop streaming audio if incoming call), time of transmission optimization (i.e. batch low priority uploads/downloads until low cost, high bandwidth connections), appropriate channel bandwidth to match endpoint coding/decoding schemes, and adaptive compression to balance bandwidth usage (i.e. increase compression in voice over IP (VOIP) conference call scenario). The cognitive radio can also gracefully degrade the supplied services according to environmental conditions such as link quality changes, interference, and energy-source degradation in order to help maximize the useful operating lifetime of the device

7.5. Dynamic Regulatory Compliance

Radios that are aware of their locations and current regulatory jurisdiction can update and maintain compliance with local regulations. This is important for radios that are likely to cross borders. This awareness combined with the ability to update a radios knowledge of regulatory rules could allow regulations to adapt more quickly to new technologies.

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7.6. Radio performance optimization

A radio that is aware of its internal state can improve its performance compared to a traditional radio. For example, a radio aware of its remaining energy level could adapt its data rates or modulation type to maximize its operating time. A radio that was aware that its decoder was operating near the limits of its abilities may adapt its data rate or bandwidth to increase the operating margins of the communications link.

7.7. User based Cognitive Adaptation

An additional level of cognition may be the radios awareness of its user. Soft biometrics enables a CR node to recognize user identity. Sensors for medical triage and first responder health may indicate to a wearable CR the health of its user, enabling the radio to adjust even its physical layer (power) or network layer (routing parameters from forwarding to flooding) to call for help if a first responder is in need. The robotics industry is developing robots for health care, and these robots will have different priorities for use of wireless services for various forms of service and assistance. Although the radio itself would not take on the job of assessing the state of the user, the cognitive radio that is user-aware may autonomously adjust air interface, application, and protocol stack agility to provide the most appropriate mode of communications on a scale of assured connectivity to better bandwidth without the user having to explicitly program or control the SDR.

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CHAPTER 8

DISADVANTAGES
With any emerging technology there are drawbacks that can potentially affect the development of the system. Key problems that arise for CR include: Encompasses the same drawbacks as software defined radio Loss of control Regulatory concerns Significant research remains to be done to realize commercially

practical cognitive radios With any software define radio based technology there are always complexity drawbacks. Since the core of CR resided with software defined radio, CR inherits most of the same problems associated with software defined radio. Some of the drawbacks associated with software defined radio are: Security Software reliability Keeping up with higher data rates

The process of CRs sense, learns, and adapt cycle changes the outside world for other cognitive radios with each cycle. This can potentially result in loss of control if a group of radios interact with each other causing chaotic networks. As far as regulatory concerns apply to CR the current FCC The fear is that

regulations are not specified or designed for CR use.

regulations will retard the development of cognitive radio or actually reduce available spectrum. The concept of CR is still evolving and there are many research areas that need to be addressed for the systems. This includes:

information collection and modeling; decision processes; learning processes; hardware support

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CHAPTER 9

FUTURE OF COGNITIVE RADIO

Today engineers are trying to make further adaptable operating capacity to upcoming radios, mobiles and other wireless communication accessories. In future, it will be permitted that cognitive radio technology almost wireless networking that will use to establish and to connect to any nearby accessible unused radio spectrum that facilitates the customer. Cognitive radio technology can improve interoperability by enabling devices to bridge communications between jurisdictions using different frequencies and modulation formats. Such interoperability is crucial to enabling public safety agencies to do their jobs. Example: National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) supported by U.S. DOJs AGILE Program for the public safety. Planning applications are one of the new attractive technologies that CR will enable. Navigation using databases and GPS signals will increase. Some of the planning applications envisioned are: Route planning Battery Management Noise Discipline Light Discipline Management of Information Flow Role Assignment as a function of the operators skills Talk Group Assignment Smart Calibration Smart Bridge (recognize the need for two or more legacy to

communicate and connect them through a bridge)

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CHAPTER 10

CONCLUSION
We have discussed a number of different considerations of the use of Cognitive Radio technology. The challenge is to understand its implications, and make use of its capabilities to specify, design, and operate communications systems that provide users with capabilities they need, enhance their applications, and make them more effective. Gaining more utility from existing spectrum or minimizing the acquisition cost of additional spectrum for additional services is shown to have a huge monetary value. And in the commercial world, time is also critical. Systems must complete their communications tasks within an acceptable time frame to suit the users purposes. All of these goals are substantially enabled by cognitive radio capabilities.

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CHAPTER 11

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