Provisioning delay sensitive services in cognitive radio networks with multiple radio interfaces

Cognitive radio network (CRN) users are inherently expected to experience widely-varied delays due to the uncertainty in wireless channel availability. Supporting delay sensitive real-time services through CRNs, so that visitors are allowed to experience full-scale networking services by opportunistically sharing the spectrum from a number of existing networks without impacting on the primary users, thus remains a challenging task. This paper presents a novel technique to provision QoS guarantee for delay-sensitive services in CRNs having secondary users equipped with multiple radio interfaces. The technique relies on modeling spectrums holes from multiple primary networks through a resultant channel to enable implementing a single server queuing model with random service interruption. Simulation results using ns-2.33 show that using multiple radio interfaces has sheer strength to reduce CRN delay with fewer number of primary channel sensing.