Cognitive Agile Networking testbed

Cognitive radio is a well motivated concept for improving the inefficient spectrum utilization and apparent scarcity that result from traditional spectral regulations. So far, most efforts in the cognitive radio research field focus on techniques for the enhancement of the amount of available spectrum under the stringent constraint of causing no harmful interference to legacy users. But communication reliability also can substantially benefit from the cognitive radio approach by means of agile utilization of transmission opportunities in frequency, time and space. In this paper, we present our Cognitive Agile Networking (CAN) framework that aims at achieving robust low-latency communications by introducing agility in frequency, time and space as well as learning and reasoning for optimizing network operations. In order to respect practical issues of real-world applications, we are building a Cognitive Agile Spectrum Testbed (COAST) for experiments and validations. An initial version of this testbed is introduced here and its spectral agility is demonstrated.