Cognitive Wireless Networks: Your Network Just Became a Teenager

In this poster we discuss research challenges one needs to overcome to introduce intelligent methods to wireless communications. Recent research on cognitive radios has started to introduce machine learning and reasoning techniques to wireless networks. However, while these first steps with cognitive radios are certainly exciting, they have been very limited in scope, and collaborative aspects of network optimization have largely been ignored. As protection against the chaos that could ensue from the kindergarten of selfishly behaving cognitive radios, we propose a cognitive resource management framework. Allowing for the distribution of information gathering and decision making across the network we hope to boost the collective intelligence of the system from the level of a toddler towards that of a teenager.