EARS: Collaborative Research: Full-Duplex Cognitive Radio: A New Design Paradigm for Enhancing Spectrum Usage

随着人们对数据速率需求的不断增长，频谱资源变得越来越稀缺。认知无线电（CR）技术作为一种提高频谱利用率的技术，通过允许非授权用户共存于授权频段，具有很大的潜力来满足这一需求。在传统的CR系统中，在数据传输之前的每个时隙的开始处执行频谱感测。不幸的是，这导致两个主要问题：1）由于感测而导致的传输时间减少，以及2）由于数据传输而导致的感测准确性损害。为了解决这些问题，提出了一种新的设计，未来CR探索全双工（FD）技术，以实现同时频谱感知和数据传输。该提案的目的是通过解决协议设计和理论分析等各种变革性挑战，将有前途的概念框架转化为实际的无线网络设计。教育计划将为研究生和本科生提供跨学科培训。通过指导，参与研究和参与测试平台开发，确保学生积极参与。将组织针对高中生，特别是妇女和少数民族学生的外联活动。通过出版物、教程、研讨会和在线工具保证广泛传播。拟议的研究旨在通过跨学科框架奠定FD CR网络的基础，该框架协同结合了信号处理、无线通信、网络和RF硬件设计的概念，以产生几个创新：1.利用多输入多输出（MIMO）FD无线电，次用户可以同时感测和接入空闲频谱，从而显著改善感测性能，同时提高数据传输效率。研究的问题是使用MIMO联合考虑主用户接收机和FD自干扰。2.经典的CR网络使用先插后说，而FD支持先插后说，这可以显着提高网络性能。研究问题是调查权衡。3.经典的多随机接入协议基于载波侦听多址接入/冲突避免（CSMA/CA），而FD实现冲突检测（CSMA/CD）。研究的问题是分析自干扰下的性能。4.拟议的FD网络协议将使用配备MIMO技术的WARP板进行测试。

With the rapid growth of demand for ever-increasing data rate, spectrum resources have become more and more scarce. As a promising technique to increase the efficiency of the spectrum utilization, cognitive radio (CR) technique has the great potential to meet such a requirement by allowing unlicensed users to coexist in licensed bands. In conventional CR systems, the spectrum sensing is performed at the beginning of each time slot before the data transmission. This unfortunately results in two major problems: 1) transmission time reduction due to sensing, and 2) sensing accuracy impairment due to data transmission. To tackle these problems, a new design for future CR is proposed by exploring the full-duplex (FD) techniques to achieve the simultaneous spectrum sensing and data transmission. The aim of this proposal is to transform the promising conceptual framework into the practical wireless network design by addressing a diverse set of transformative challenges such as protocol design and theoretical analysis. The educational plan will provide interdisciplinary training for graduate and undergraduate students. Active student involvement is ensured via mentoring, research involvement, and participation in testbed development. Outreach events targeting high school students, particularly women and minority, will be organized. Broad dissemination is guaranteed via publications, tutorials, workshops, and online tools.The proposed research aims at laying the foundations of FD CR networks via an interdisciplinary framework that synergistically marries concepts from signal processing, wireless communications, networking, and RF hardware design to yield several innovations: 1. With multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) FD radios, secondary users can simultaneously sense and access the vacant spectrum, and thus, significantly improve sensing performances and meanwhile increase data transmission efficiency. The research issue is using MIMO to jointly considering primary user receivers and FD self-interference. 2. Classic CR networks using listen-before-talk, while FD enable listen-and-talk, which can significantly improve the network performances. The research issues are to investigate the tradeoffs. 3. The classical multiple random access protocol is based on carrier sensing multiple access/collision avoidance (CSMA/CA), while FD enables collision detection (CSMA/CD). The research issue is to analyze the performances under self interference. 4. The proposed FD network protocols will be tested using WARP boards equipped with MIMO technology.