Performance Evaluation of Qos Parameters in Cognitive Radio Using Genetic Algorithm

The efficient use of available licensed spectrum is becoming more and more critical with increasing demand and usage of the radio spectrum. This paper shows how the use of spectrum as well as dynamic spectrum management can be effectively managed and spectrum allocation schemes in the wireless communication systems be implemented and used, in future. This paper would be an attempt towards better utilization of the spectrum. This research will focus on the decision-making process mainly, with an assumption that the radio environment has already been sensed and the QoS requirements for the application have been specified either by the sensed radio environment or by the secondary user itself. We identify and study the characteristic parameters of Cognitive Radio and use Genetic Algorithm for spectrum allocation. Performance evaluation is done using MATLAB toolboxes.

Authors:

• Maninder Jeet Kaur
• Moin Uddin
• Harsh K. Verma

Keywords:

• Cognitive Radio
• Fitness Functions
• Fuzzy Logic
• Quality of Service (QoS)

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