Dynamic networking spectrum reuse transceiver

A method for conducting cross-layer communications in a wireless network of cognitive radios comprising:

• specifying at least one information parameter to be used by a network service;
• inputting the parameter into the physical layer from a generating network layer;
• preprocessing the parameter to produce numeric and linguistic outputs;
• mapping said numeric and linguistic outputs to knowledge space;
• applying reasoning engine to knowledge space to produce linguistic results;
• and
• reporting linguistic results to the network service.

A method for providing cross-layer network services in a wireless network of cognitive radios comprising at least one of:

• shifting at least one network service component into the physical or MAC layer;
• executing available spectrum, node and association neighbor discovery functions at the MAC layer;
• and
• utilizing the physical layer of a cognitive radio in the network to detect the presence of energy above a threshold.

A method for operating a true multichannel wireless dynamic network using cognitive networking radios (CNR) that use spectrum sensing cognitive radio (CR) technology to avoid channels currently in use occupied by a primary or other secondary user, the network of CNRs comprising a plurality of wireless mobile nodes and a plurality of wireless communication links connecting the mobile nodes together, the method comprising:

• establishing a core set of true multichannel functionality for use by network services;
• determining a set of available channels for every association of nodes or individual nodes in the network for the purpose of performing network services;
• executing network services over said available channels;
• performing true multichannel crosslayer network services;
• flooding any type of network traffic through the network over a subset of nodes or associations using an optimized, available channel-based mechanism;
• monitoring the members of each available channel set across the network;
• and
• distributing networking functionality across more than one available channel from the identified members of channel sets.