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Cross-Link Tail Risk Mitigation in Dynamic Spectrum Reallocation with Bounded Search and Switching

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Dynamic spectrum reallocation must mitigate severe link degradation under limited search and frequency switching. We study a risk-triggered controller combining receiver/aggressor ranking, screened greedy repair and conditional two-coordinate refinement under cumulative co-channel and adjacent channel interference. With four frequency candidates per link and a 12-link greedy screen, each noninitial decision requires at most 104 physical evaluations and respects a hard switching limit. Component, disturbance recovery and single-factor experiments characterize the operating trade-offs. Findings from these studies motivate a separately frozen tail risk validation using 30 new seeds at each of two network sizes, yielding 240 closed-loop trajectories. Its sole primary endpoint is the trajectory-mean cross-link conditional value-at-risk of signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) shortfall. In the prescribed 30-link scenarios, the controller reduces this endpoint by 10.61% against ranked coordinate search and 11.97% against a literature-informed memetic reference. Both comparisons survive Holm correction. An advantage over the no-refinement ablation is not established, nor is any primary comparison at 14 links. All methods fail to attain fully feasible slots in the 30-link validation. A separate screening size sensitivity study finds lower 30-link tail risk with a 24-link screen under the same evaluation ceiling; the original 12-link choice is therefore not optimal among the tested settings. Post-review rescorings of the R4 decisions retain the 30-link comparator advantages for raw dB shortfall but not the absolute linear SINR shortfall. Thus, the observed ranking depends on the declared loss definition. The evidence therefore supports conditional mitigation of severe link degradation under that definition, not metric-independent superiority, service-level compliance or an end-to-end real-time guarantee.

Source: Electronics

DOI: 10.3390/electronics15204778

Authors: Chongyuan He, Xiang Sun, Shaoying Shi

Institution: East China Normal University

Language: English

Topic: Cognitive Radio Networks and Spectrum Sensing

Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,896