Chapter 11 - Network Support: The Radio Environment Map

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This chapter discusses the strategy of exploiting network support in cognitive radio (CR) systems architectures introducing the radio environment map (REM) as an innovative vehicle of providing network support to CRs. As a systematic top-down approach to providing network support to CRs, the radio environment map is proposed as an integrated database consisting of multi domain information such as geographical features, available services, spectral regulations, locations and activities of radios, policies of the user and/or service provider, and past experience. An radio environment map (REM) can be exploited by a CE to enhance or achieve most of cognitive functionalities such as SA, reasoning, learning, planning, and decision support. Leveraging both internal and external network support through global and local REMs presents a sensible approach to implementing CRs in a reliable, flexible, and cost effective way. Network support can dramatically relax the requirements on a CR device as well as improve the performance of the whole CR network. Considering the dynamic nature of spectral regulation and operation policy, the REM-based CR is flexible and future proof in the sense that it allows regulators or service providers to modify or change their rules or policies simply by updating REMs accordingly.

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