Opportunistic access to spectrum holes between packet bursts: A learning-based approach

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2497-2509

  Choi, Kae Won ^a   Hossain, Ekram ^b  

^a Seoul National University of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive radio; energy detection; hidden Markov model (HMM); opportunistic spectrum access; partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP)

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE RADIO; ENERGY DETECTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM); OPPORTUNISTIC SPECTRUM ACCESS; PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESS;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FREQUENCY BANDS; GRADIENT METHODS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; RADIO; SPECTROSCOPY;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84860413711     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2011.060711.100154     Document Type: Article

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