Solving Channel Assignment Problem in Cognitive Radio Networks with Immune Plasma Algorithm

The new coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic has focused researchers from various disciplines including computer sciences on existing diagnosis and treatment methods. As a result of this increasing interest, Immune Plasma algorithm (IP algorithm or IPA) that is a new meta-heuristic referencing a treatment method called immune or convalescent plasma has been introduced recently. In this study, IP algorithm was modified by considering the channel assignment problem on cognitive networks and its performance was investigated on solving mentioned problem. Moreover, the results of the IPA based technique were compared with the results of the Brute force search. Comparative studies showed that IP algorithm is capable of obtaining better solutions than the Brute force search.