Cognitive Radio Architecture: The Engineering Foundations of Radio XML

Chapter 9. USER-DOMAIN USE CASES

The use cases of this chapter motivate the inclusion of visual and audio-visual sensor perception into the cognitive radio architecture (CRA). The diversity of user templates motivates further AML and uncertainty management technologies in the CRA. The iCR should save its user substantial work by performing increasingly complex home, office, and leisure tasks via trustable wireless services as directed by the user, but mostly autonomously. It should make life more interesting by autonomously looking up that flower in the garden of Hampton Court with interesting horticulture lineage. The chapter begins with a study of a near-term AACR assisting in maintaining personal safety in an emergency situation and concludes with a conceptual treatment of far-term iCR functions.

EMERGENCY COMPANION USE CASE

Consider an AACR that monitors the owner's vital signs. Niche products already monitor and report blood pressure, heart rate, and respiration. Postulate a wardrobe in which the user wears the sensors and the wearable AACR itself autonomously monitors the readings for conformance to the user's historic norms and excursions. This AACR might use Prolog rules to monitor these vital signs analogous to Kokar's rules for monitoring the adaptive equalizer. When bounds are out of range, the AACR takes appropriate action. Suppose now that an earthquake has left the owner injured in the rubble. The AACR detects the owner's elevated heart rate and labored breathing out ...