*Distributed Load Balancing Algorithm for
	  Adaptive Channel Allocation for Cognitive Radios*

   Simon Fischer, Marina Petrova,  Petri Mähönen, Berthold Vöcking


The problem of channel allocation has been extensively studied in
the context of cellular networks. There is a substantial amount of
work in the field of dynamic frequency assignment for WLANs and mesh
networks as well. The growing interest in the cognitive radio
technology and its capability to offer more efficient spectrum usage
brought this problem back as one of the most popular research topics
nowadays. In this paper we present two quite simple to implement,
distributed algorithms for selecting channels, in cognitive radio
environment, so that the load is distributed (smoothed) over them.