A P2P Resource Sharing Algorithm (P2P-RSA) for 802.22b Networks

Abstract

IEEE 802.22 is a standard for Wireless Regional Area Network (WRAN) which uses cognitive radio techniques to exploit in an opportunistic way the white spaces in the TV frequency spectrum. In the last years 802.22b working group was approved by the IEEE 802 committee, at the aim to allow peer to peer communications in a 802.22 WRAN. One of the principal issue in this topic is the intra network resource sharing. In this paper we present a resource sharing algorithm based on spectrum reuse, the features of the proposed method are fairness and network capacity maximization.