Optimality and complexity of opportunistic spectrum access: A truncated markov decision process formulation

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 5787-5792

  Djonin, Dejan V ^b   Zhao, Qing ^a,c   Krishnamurthy, Vikram ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

History truncation; Imperfect state information; Markov decision processes; Opportunistic spectrum access; Optimal control

Indexed keywords

HISTORY TRUNCATION; IMPERFECT STATE INFORMATION; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; OPPORTUNISTIC SPECTRUM ACCESS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 38549126075     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2007.959     Document Type: Conference Paper

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