Opportunistic spectrum access via periodic channel sensing

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 785-796

  Zhao, Qianchuan ^a   Geirhofer, Stefan ^b   Tong, Lang ^b   Sadler, Brian M ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained Markov decision processes; Dynamic spectrum access; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CONSTRAINED MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; DYNAMIC SPECTRUM ACCESS; PERIODIC CHANNEL SENSING;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 39649121899     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.907867     Document Type: Article

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