However, since the LTE network becomes a secondary system in the cognitive bands belonging to other licensed networks, various challenges occur when extending LTE to LTE-CR due to the uncertainty of cognitive spectra, such as spectrum sensing, network access, and spectrum handoff. Note that network access is especially important for an LTE-CR cellular network when it works in the standalone mode. In this case, users could access the network using both the cognitive and licensed spectra, so the network access procedure is quite different from the conventional one with only licensed spectra.
Some potential network access schemes have been considered for LTE-CR. One possible solution is to modify the current LTE air interface so that mobile users can sense the spectrum and use existing schemes such as listen-before-talk and request-to-send/clear-to-send to access the network [7]. However, changing the LTE air interface is not easy, so it is more desirable to use the existing LTE air-interface for either licensed or unlicensed spectrum [6, 8] to reduce the operating cost and system complexity. Therefore, this article focuses on backward-compatible network access schemes for LTE-CR.
However, since the LTE network becomes a secondary system in the cognitive bands belonging to other licensed networks, various challenges occur when extending LTE to LTE-CR due to the uncertainty of cognitive spectra, such as spectrum sensing, network access, and spectrum handoff. Note that network access is especially important for an LTE-CR cellular network when it works in the standalone mode. In this case, users could access the network using both the cognitive and licensed spectra, so the network access procedure is quite different from the conventional one with only licensed spectra.Some potential network access schemes have been considered for LTE-CR. One possible solution is to modify the current LTE air interface so that mobile users can sense the spectrum and use existing schemes such as listen-before-talk and request-to-send/clear-to-send to access the network [7]. However, changing the LTE air interface is not easy, so it is more desirable to use the existing LTE air-interface for either licensed or unlicensed spectrum [6, 8] to reduce the operating cost and system complexity. Therefore, this article focuses on backward-compatible network access schemes for LTE-CR.
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