Propostas de modelos de rádio cognitivo para aumentar a capacidade de sistemas sem fio

Abstract

This work presents the application of the overlay and underlay cognitive radio models in two distinct wireless networks, constrained by self interference with the goal of improving network capacity. The overlay model was applied in a WMN (Wireless Mesh Network) in order to allow concurrent transmissions within the same interference region with a slightly node throughput degradation, but with a significant overall network capacity improvement. The underlay model was applied in order to introduce a new independent wireless network within the region of a primary wireless network and using a fraction of the primary frequency band as common frequency for both networks. In this case, the network capacity improvement is regarding the introduction of a new network without interfere with the primary system performance. Other modern wireless communications techniques were employed along with cognitive radio concept to achieve the final results presented here such as superposition and dirty paper coding, orthogonal antenna beamforming and dinamic radio resources scheduling.