TY - GEN
T1 - When brands fight over bands
T2 - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2017
AU - Wisniewska, Anna
AU - Khan, Bilal
AU - Al-Fuqaha, Ala
AU - Dombrowski, Kirk
AU - Shattal, Mohammad Abu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/7/28
Y1 - 2017/7/28
N2 - As wireless devices continue to proliferate, spectrum management is essential to a healthy and functioning digital ecosystem. Here we present an evolutionary analysis of how interbrand relationships can be expected to evolve in the cognitive radio domain over long time scales. We find that a range of trajectories are possible, and that the eventual outcomes depend on a variety of system parameters including the number of users and transmission band switching costs. Starting from previous bio-socially inspired fair spectrum sharing protocols, we put forward an extended model of secondary user etiquette that allows for a range of inter-group dynamics to arise in the natural course of competition over and co-use of spectrum resources. We show that as populations grow, increases in transmission switching costs lead to evolutionary pressures toward increasing antagonism between brands, and that in such scenarios devices tend to segregate by brand across bands. Understanding the drivers behind emerging inter-brand dynamics from an evolutionary perspective is an important input to the long term view of the successful application of distributed spectrum access and cognitive radio.
AB - As wireless devices continue to proliferate, spectrum management is essential to a healthy and functioning digital ecosystem. Here we present an evolutionary analysis of how interbrand relationships can be expected to evolve in the cognitive radio domain over long time scales. We find that a range of trajectories are possible, and that the eventual outcomes depend on a variety of system parameters including the number of users and transmission band switching costs. Starting from previous bio-socially inspired fair spectrum sharing protocols, we put forward an extended model of secondary user etiquette that allows for a range of inter-group dynamics to arise in the natural course of competition over and co-use of spectrum resources. We show that as populations grow, increases in transmission switching costs lead to evolutionary pressures toward increasing antagonism between brands, and that in such scenarios devices tend to segregate by brand across bands. Understanding the drivers behind emerging inter-brand dynamics from an evolutionary perspective is an important input to the long term view of the successful application of distributed spectrum access and cognitive radio.
KW - Cognitive radio networks
KW - bio-social networking
KW - contention-sensing
KW - dynamic spectrum access
KW - self-coexistence
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U2 - 10.1109/ICC.2017.7997383
DO - 10.1109/ICC.2017.7997383
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85028322119
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
BT - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2017
A2 - Debbah, Merouane
A2 - Gesbert, David
A2 - Mellouk, Abdelhamid
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 21 May 2017 through 25 May 2017
ER -