A Machine Learning Based Scheme for Dynamic Spectrum Access

Published

March 30, 2021

Author(s)

Anirudha Sahoo

Abstract

In this paper, we present a machine learning (ML) based dynamic spectrum access (DSA) scheme which can be used in a system in which primary user (PU) spectrum occupancy can be represented as a sequence of busy (on) and idle (off) periods. We use real world data collected from LTE systems at two locations for our study. We experiment with different feed forward artifical neural network (ANN) architectures to choose from for our DSA scheme. A simple perceptron based ANN architecture was determined to provide good performance. We compare performance of our ML based DSA scheme with a traditional DSA scheme based on analytical model that uses survival analysis. Our results show that our ML based scheme outperforms the survival analysis based scheme in terms of utilization of idle periods. In terms of probability of interference to the PU, our scheme is better in some configurations and slightly worse in some other configurations.

Proceedings Title

2021 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)

Conference Dates

March 29-April 1, 2021

Conference Location

Nanjing,

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

Dynamic spectrum access, spectrum sharing, machine learning, artificial neural network

Citation

Sahoo, A. (2021), A Machine Learning Based Scheme for Dynamic Spectrum Access, 2021 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Nanjing, , [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=931081 (Accessed October 15, 2025)