Light Cognitive Radio Enabled Flexible Spectrum Usage in Local Area Deployment

In this paper we propose a mechanism to enable flexible spectrum usage (FSU) in local area indoor deployment scenario with several operators in the given geographical area. The proposed scheme is referred to as policy assisted light cognitive radio (CR) enabled FSU, because it follows the CR cycle and considers policy as an important element to assist FSU. It facilitates allocation of spectral resources from a common pool in flexible manner and ensures coexistence of several operators in the given geographical area on the shared spectrum. It also provides an autonomous, self adjustable and scalable solution for the emerging large scale Local Area (LA) indoor deployment of Home eNode-Bs (HeNBs).