Discrete OFDM-Based Channel Assignment Scheme for Agile Networks.

The main goals of all new technologies nowadays are utilizing the available spectrum, increasing spectrum efficiency, and increasing the throughput. Cognitive radio (CR) technology can provide efficient spectrum utilization and maximize the throughput using dynamic spectrum access technique. A new medium access control (MAC) protocol is needed for CR users to access the spectrum dynamically and to maintain fairness between users. In this paper, our objective is to enhance the overall network throughput, by enhancing SMART-V MAC protocol to support D-OFDM technology. A new channel assignment scheme called SMART-O based on these two technologies is proposed. The proposed algorithm greatly increased the overall throughput of the network and solved the channel assignment and rate optimization problems. Simulation results exposed the improvement of our work compared to previous algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]