White Cloud or Black Cloud: Opportunity and Challenge of Spectrum Sharing on Cloud Computing

In order to fully utilize the spectrum resource, dynamic spectrum access becomes a promising approach to increase the opportunity of spectrum access with the rapid development of cognitive radio. However the performance of cognitive radio networks (CRN) is considerably constrained by its limited power, memory and computing ability. Fortunately cloud computing, which is the highlight of current research, has the potential to make up for the disadvantages because of its vast storage and computing capacity. In this paper we will discuss the convergence of spectrum sharing and cloud computing from several aspects including model, advantages and challenges. A spectrum sharing model based on cloud computing (SSC) will be introduced.