Traffic Control for Cognitive Wireless Networks Composed of IEEE802.11 and IEEE802.16

In emerging wireless communication environments, a variety of wireless systems will coexist using a variety of applications. On the other hand, concern is increasing that the growing use of wireless systems will exhaust finite radio resources. Cognitive radio, which aims to optimize the utilization efficiency of radio resources by combining multiple wireless systems, has been proposed as a solution to this problem. In a cognitive wireless network composed of nodes equipped with multiple wireless systems, we have proposed a traffic control method that decreases delay and increases throughput by using wireless link aggregation. In this paper, our proposed method is presented, and its performance is shown through evaluation with IEEE802.11 and IEEE802.16.