Cognitive Radio Policy Languages

This paper characterizes key issues in establishing a policy language for IEEE standards activity P1900.5 to shape radio behavior that realizes social contracts and business logic via cognitive radio policy languages (CRPL). This paper shows the current lack of consensus on the scope and needs of policy languages, tracing roots to differences among regulatory, financial, business, and technical domains. Cognitive linguistics, an emerging theory of human language acquisition and use shows why this is the case and may assist in formulating a CRPL that addresses the diverse policy needs of the regulatory and business communities as well as the narrower issues of dynamic spectrum.