RAP-MAC Empirical Performance Evaluation

Abstract

Implementing a CRN environment poses significant design challenges. For example, any Opportunistic Spectrum Access experiment requires the creation of multiple primary networks which spectral opportunities can be exploited by the CRN users when the primary users are inactive. Thus, the experiments must provide controllable primary network flows. Furthermore, the experimental setup must keep track of every CRN transmission as well as every primary networks’ transmission and reception in order to assess the CRN decision mechanism and the outage performance of the primary networks, respectively.