Planning Approach to Dynamic Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio Networks

Over the past few years, significant effort has been put into various treatments of dynamic spectrum access. This paper has resulted in a many protocols and heuristic techniques for coexistence between primary and secondary users in a frequency band. However, none of these approaches has resulted in a description suitable for implementation on a general purpose cognitive engine. As a result, devices implementing these algorithms cannot truly be called "Cognitive radios" as they are not controlled by a cognitive engine. This paper focuses on translating the basic semantics of dynamic spectrum access into the Action Description Language (ADL), and in particular the primary-prioritized Markov approach to dynamic spectrum access.