Symbiotic Communications: Where Marconi Meets Darwin
Ying-Chang Liang, Ruizhe Long, Qianqian Zhang, Dusit Niyato

TL;DR
This paper introduces a novel symbiotic communication paradigm that models radio systems as an ecosystem, enabling resource sharing and cooperation to address spectrum scarcity and improve wireless system efficiency.
Contribution
It proposes a new ecosystem-inspired framework for radio resource management, utilizing symbiotic relationships like coevolution and synthesis among radio systems.
Findings
Enables mutualistic relationships among radio systems.
Improves spectrum utilization through ecosystem-based cooperation.
Provides new design guidelines for future wireless systems.
Abstract
With the proliferation of wireless applications, the electromagnetic (EM) space is becoming more and more crowded and complex. This makes it a challenging task to accommodate the growing number of radio systems with limited radio resources. In this paper, by considering the EM space as a radio ecosystem, and leveraging the analogy to the natural ecosystem in biology, a novel symbiotic communication (SC) paradigm is proposed through which the relevant radio systems, called symbiotic radios (SRs), in a radio ecosystem form a symbiotic relationship (e.g., mutualistic symbiosis) through intelligent resource/service exchange. Radio resources include, e.g., spectrum, energy, and infrastructure, while typical radio services are communicating, relaying, and computing. The symbiotic relationship can be realized via either symbiotic coevolution or symbiotic synthesis. In symbiotic coevolution,…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced MIMO Systems Optimization · Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling · Cooperative Communication and Network Coding
