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In cognitive radio networks (CRNs), establishing a communication link between a pair of secondary users (SUs) requires them to rendezvous on a common channel which is not occupied by primary users (PUs). Under time-varying PU traffic,…
In this paper, we consider the multichannel rendezvous problem in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) where the probability that two users hopping on the same channel have a successful rendezvous is a function of channel states. The channel…
The multi-channel blind rendezvous problem in distributed cognitive radio networks (DCRNs) refers to how users in the network can hop to the same channel at the same time slot without any prior knowledge (i.e., each user is unaware of other…
In cognitive radio (CR) networks, "TTR", a.k.a. time-to-rendezvous, is one of the most important metrics for evaluating the performance of a channel hopping (CH) rendezvous protocol, and it characterizes the rendezvous delay when two CRs…
One of the most important challenges in deploying cognitive radio networks (CRNs) is to find a common control channel (CCC) to all secondary users (SUs) that enables efficient CR communications. This challenge is attributed to the dynamic…
In Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs), the secondary users (SUs) are allowed to access the licensed channels opportunistically. A fundamental and essential operation for SUs is to establish communication through choosing a common channel at…
In cognitive radio networks, rendezvous is a fundamental operation by which two cognitive users establish a communication link on a commonly-available channel for communications. Some existing rendezvous algorithms can guarantee that…
In this paper, we propose novel channel-hoppingbased distributed rendezvous algorithm based on grid-basedquorum techniques. The proposed algorithm increases the probability of rendezvous (RDV) within a single cycle by allowing CR nodes to…
In Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs), secondary users (SUs) must efficiently discover each other across multiple communication channels while avoiding interference from primary users (PUs). Traditional multichannel rendezvous algorithms…
In the literature, there are several well-known periodic channel hopping (CH) sequences that can achieve maximum rendezvous diversity in a cognitive radio network (CRN). For a CRN with $N$ channels, it is known that the period of such a CH…
We propose a theoretical framework for consistent channel hopping algorithms to address the multichannel rendezvous problem (MRP) in wireless networks with heterogeneous available channel sets. A channel selection function is called…
The multichannel rendezvous problem (MRP) is a critical challenge for neighbor discovery in IoT applications, requiring two users to find each other by hopping among available channels over time. This paper addresses the MRP in scenarios…
In this paper, we consider the multichannel rendezvous problem in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) where the probability that two users hopping on the same channel have a successful rendezvous is a function of channel states. The channel…
Blind rendezvous is a fundamental problem in cognitive radio networks. The problem involves a collection of agents (radios) that wish to discover each other in the blind setting where there is no shared infrastructure and they initially…
The multichannel rendezvous problem is a fundamental problem for neighbor discovery in many IoT applications. The existing works in the literature focus mostly on improving the worst-case performance, and the average-case performance is…
Most of existing rendezvous algorithms generate channel-hopping sequences based on the whole channel set. They are inefficient when the set of available channels is a small subset of the whole channel set. We propose a new algorithm called…
In this paper, we consider the joint opportunistic routing and channel assignment problem in multi-channel multi-radio (MCMR) cognitive radio networks (CRNs) for improving aggregate throughput of the secondary users. We first present the…
In the classic Symmetric Rendezvous problem on a Line (SRL), two robots at known distance 2 but unknown direction execute the same randomized algorithm trying to minimize the expected rendezvous time. A long standing conjecture is that the…
Two mobile agents represented by points freely moving in the plane and starting at two distinct positions, have to meet. The meeting, called rendezvous, occurs when agents are at distance at most $r$ of each other and never move after this…
A radio network (RN) is a distributed system consisting of $n$ radio stations. We design and analyze two distributed leader election protocols in RN where the number $n$ of radio stations is unknown. The first algorithm runs under the…