ZOS: A Fast Rendezvous Algorithm Based on Set of Available Channels for Cognitive Radios

Abstract: Most of existing rendezvous algorithms generate channel-hopping sequences based on the whole channel set. They are inefficient when the set of available channels is a small subset of the whole channel set. We propose a new algorithm called ZOS which uses three types of elementary sequences (namely, Zero-type, One-type, and S-type) to generate channel-hopping sequences based on the set of available channels. ZOS provides guaranteed rendezvous without any additional requirements. The maximum time-to-rendezvous of ZOS is upper-bounded by O(m1*m2*log2M) where M is the number of all channels and m1 and m2 are the numbers of available channels of two users.