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An Adaptive WiFi/WiMAX Networking Platform for Cognitive Vehicular Networks

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This chapter presents an adaptive networking platform using WiFi/WiMAX technologies for cognitive vehicle-to-roadside communications, which can be used to transfer safety messages and provide Internet access for mobile users inside vehicles. The proposed platform is based on a heterogeneous multihop cluster-based vehicular network, where a vehicular node can choose to play the role of a gateway or a client. The gateway nodes communicate directly with a roadside base station through a WiMAX link. The client nodes connect to the gateways through WiFi links. Traffic from client nodes are relayed by the gateways to a roadside base station. The vehicular nodes are the self-interest (i.e., rational) and have capability to learn and adapt decision to achieve their objectives independently. A decision-making framework is proposed for this WiFi/WiMAX platform. This distributed decision-making framework, which enables the vehicular nodes with cognitive capability, is modeled and analyzed using game theory. Also, a Q-learning algorithm is used in vehicular nodes to provide the cognitive capability to learn and adapt their decision. Dynamics of Q-learning algorithm can be modeled as an evolutionary game.

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This work was supported by the AUTO21 NCE research grant for the project F303-FVT.

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  1. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, country

    Dusit Niyato

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

    Ekram Hossain

  3. TOT Public Company Limited, Bangkok, Thailand

    Teerawat Issariyakul

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Niyato, D., Hossain, E., Issariyakul, T. (2011). An Adaptive WiFi/WiMAX Networking Platform for Cognitive Vehicular Networks. In: Yu, F. (eds) Cognitive Radio Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6172-3_12

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