A Cognitive Network for Intelligent Environments

With the emergence of ubiquitous computing, a dedicated network enabling applications for such systems becomes increasingly indispensable. Given the typical user-centered focus of ubiquitous applications, the dedicated network should be able to reconfigure itself autonomously according to the current context of use. In this paper, a new definition of a cognitive network is given and a clear line is drawn between cognitive networks and other types of networks. A framework for cognitive networks is presented and a novel cognition loop which is more consistent with human cognition is proposed. The evaluation of the design constitutes a part of the future work.