Optimal Discovery Strategies in White Space Networks

The whitespace-discovery problem describes two parties, Alice and Bob, trying to discovery one another and establish communication over one of a given large segment of communication channels. Subsets of the channels are occupied in each of the local environments surrounding Alice and Bob, as well as in the global environment (Eve). In the absence of a common clock for the two parties, the goal is to devise time-invariant (stationary) strategies minimizing the discovery time.