On Network Selection for Secondary Users in Cognitive Radio Networks

In this paper, we present a network flow based approach for network selection for secondary users in cognitive radio networks. Most approaches in the current literature on cognitive radio do not consider network 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.