An integrated service model to support user specific QoS routing in cognitive radio ad hoc network.

Routing in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Network (CRAHN) is a challenging task due to limited spectrum availability. To overcome this problem several researchers have proposed various routing schemes based on Quality of Service (QoS) and spectrum availability. These schemes choose a path that gives maximum QoS and spectrum level ignoring the required QoS level for a particular application which may be quite less than the maximum level. Thus, this paper proposes an integrated service model having eight classes instead of two for CRAHN to envisage the admission control at Primary User (PU) nodes thus reducing overhead on Secondary Users (SU) for various applications. The PU node first examines the spectrum availability and then checks whether the received packet can be granted user specific Quality of Service (QoS) or not to support Elastic plus Real Time Applications for (SU) nodes. To prove the efficacy of proposed scheme comparison with Cognitive Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector (CAODV) or shortest spectrum aware path routing mechanism is done. The result exhibits that high performance rate for good reliability, low latency and high throughput with fair load distribution among all the nodes of the network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]