A network flow based approach for network selection in dynamic spectrum access networks

In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier's archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t In this paper, we present a network flow based approach for dynamic network and channel selection for secondary users in dynamic spectrum access networks. Most approaches in the current literature on dynamic spectrum access networks do not consider dynamic network and channel selection. We present a network flow framework for network selection. We show that our approach can enable re-assignment of networks to secondary users and also re-assignment of channels to secondary users within the same network. The assignments and re-assignments take into account, the interference caused to primary users, the price each secondary user is willing to pay and the quality of service (QoS) obtained by each secondary user. We obtain a bound for the maximum number of re-assignments.