International Collaboration for a Cognitive Radio Testbed

With the constant advances in cognitive radio technology, there is a developing need for proper testing facilities. This paper introduces efforts to bring together research and development of cognitive radio, dynamic spectrum access (DSA), and software defined radio systems to enable testing in real-world environments, and to develop applications for these emerging systems. Using licensed test spectrum available to CTVR in Ireland, we propose a flexible, extensible cognitive radio platform designed to interface with different SDR, sensing, learning, and cognitive algorithms. The testbed will accelerate research and development as well as facilitate direct comparison of systems and algorithms to advance the knowledge and science of cognitive radio.