Guided-Aloha for Secondary Access With Spectrum Prediction

The demand for spectrum access continues to grow exponentially and dynamic spectrum access (DSA) is a candidate to alleviate issues with spectrum scarcity by adapting spectrum resources in real-time. Despite the benefits of intelligent DSA protocols, many algorithms are complex, and thus prohibitive...

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Main Authors: Sithamparanathan Kandeepan, Madhulika Tripathi, Ke Wang, Don Gossink, Tharaka Samarasinghe, Chamath Divarathne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10924581/
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Summary:The demand for spectrum access continues to grow exponentially and dynamic spectrum access (DSA) is a candidate to alleviate issues with spectrum scarcity by adapting spectrum resources in real-time. Despite the benefits of intelligent DSA protocols, many algorithms are complex, and thus prohibitively difficult to implement in a real-time system. This paper proposes a contention-based access method named Guided-Aloha (or G-Aloha), that stems from the simple and well-known slotted-Aloha (S-Aloha) access method, for DSA in the context of primary users (PU) and secondary users (SU) of the network. The G-Aloha method is proposed for SU access to provide extended protection to the PU compared to the S-Aloha method by being guided by the knowledge from spectrum prediction (or spectrum forecasting), considering any potential regulatory requirements for protecting the PU. Using Markov modeling, an extensive theoretical treatment of the proposed G-Aloha method in terms of the success and conflict probabilities is presented along with simulation results. Our results show that the G-Aloha method provides superior protection for the PUs compared to the S-Aloha method and a very close match between the theoretical closed form expressions and the simulation results for the performance.
ISSN:2169-3536