Fractal theory based dynamic mesh grouping scheme for efficient cognitive pilot channel design

As one of the key characteristics in cognitive wireless networks (CWNs), network environment awareness techniques have received much attention recently. Instead of traditional spectrum sensing technology that suffers from problems of miss detection, false alarm, hidden node, and inefficiency, cognitive pilot channel (CPC) technology has been proposed as one of the candidate solutions for an efficient and accurate network information delivery scheme to user equipment (UE). The aim of the CPC technology is to provide the necessary information for the reconfiguration of the UE using the public signaling channel. To ensure the efficient information delivery, the whole geographical area covered by the CPC is divided into square meshes of the same size. Moreover, two typical network information transmission modes for CPC deployment are also proposed: broadcast CPC mode and on-demand CPC mode. To further improve the efficiency of network information delivery, an efficient dynamic mesh grouping scheme has been designed which is based on the fractal theory for the broadcast CPC mode, where adaptive rectangular sized meshes are used to approximately cover the whole area. Compared to the traditional fixed size mesh division strategy, results show that the proposed dynamic mesh grouping scheme significantly reduces the number of meshes by grouping similar meshes together, and the average delay of receiving CPC information on the UE side is therefore reduced.