Cognitive Radio, Spectrum Policy Specification, and the Semantic Web

Abstract

No radio, even a cognitive one, is an island unto itself. Government regulations and policy will always exist to varying degrees regardless of cognitive radio technology capabilities. Therefore, a world of cognitive radios will be a world in which policy makers and radio designers will need to share some common understanding of this evolving technology. The Semantic Webthe ongoing World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) initiative to establish standards for machine-usable formal languages, knowledge representations, and methodsoffers an avenue for creating formal specifications of radio behaviors. Of particular relevance, the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) working group within the W3C is developing a standard that can accommodate exchange of rules among systems using different rule languages, possibly with differing formal semantics. As a motivating example this paper considers such an approach for the implementation of the Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) behavior which avoids radio bands occupied by active radar systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2007
Accession Number
AD1107270

Entities

People

  • Allen Ginsberg
  • Jeffrey D. Poston
  • William D. Horne

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognitive Radio
  • Consortiums
  • Formal Languages
  • Frequency
  • Infrastructure
  • Language
  • Monitoring
  • Networks
  • Radar
  • Radar Signals
  • Semantics
  • Specifications
  • Standards
  • Technical Standards
  • United States
  • Wireless Communications
  • World Wide Web

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Economics
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.