Cooperative communications for cognitive radio networks—From theory to applications

X Chen, HH Chen, W Meng - IEEE Communications surveys & …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cognitive Radio has been recognized as a promising way to improve spectrum efficiency of
wireless communications by exploiting under-utilized licensed spectrum in temporal …

Secondary users cooperation in cognitive radio networks: balancing sensing accuracy and efficiency

R Yu, Y Zhang, L Yi, S Xie, L Song… - IEEE Wireless …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cooperative spectrum sensing is a promising technique in cognitive radio networks by
exploiting multi-user diversity to mitigate channel fading. Cooperative sensing is traditionally …

Cooperative relay techniques for cognitive radio systems: Spectrum sensing and secondary user transmissions

Y Zou, YD Yao, B Zheng - IEEE Communications Magazine, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cognitive radio is a promising technology that enables an unlicensed user (also known as a
cognitive user) to identify the white space of a licensed spectrum band (called a spectrum …

Cooperative overlay spectrum access in cognitive radio networks

W Liang, SX Ng, L Hanzo - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to mitigate the shortage of wireless spectrum, the appealing concepts of cooperative
communication techniques and cognitive radio (CR) networks have been combined for the …

Resource allocation techniques in cooperative cognitive radio networks

M Naeem, A Anpalagan… - … surveys & tutorials, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the past decade, cognitive radio and cooperative communication techniques have been
proposed in the literature for efficiently utilizing the radio resources. Cognitive radio is an …

Cooperative communications for cognitive radio networks

KB Letaief, W Zhang - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cognitive radio is an exciting emerging technology that has the potential of dealing with the
stringent requirement and scarcity of the radio spectrum. Such revolutionary and …

Toward efficient radio spectrum utilization: User cooperation in cognitive radio networking

B Cao, Q Zhang, JW Mark, LX Cai, HV Poor - IEEE Network, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a cooperative cognitive radio network, secondary users are able to negotiate with primary
users for dedicated transmission opportunities through providing tangible service. Two novel …

On efficient resource allocation for cognitive and cooperative communications

P Li, S Guo, W Zhuang, B Ye - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cooperative communication (CC) can offer high channel capacity and reliability in an
efficient and low-cost way by forming a virtual antenna array among single-antenna nodes …

Cooperative relay in cognitive radio networks: Decode-and-forward or amplify-and-forward?

D Hu, S Mao - 2010 IEEE Global Telecommunications …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cognitive radios (CR) and cooperative communications represent new paradigms that both
can effectively improve the spectrum efficiency of future wireless networks. In this paper, we …

Cooperative beamforming for cognitive radio networks: A cross-layer design

J Liu, W Chen, Z Cao, YJA Zhang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cognitive Radio (CR) can significantly improve the utilization of the precious radio spectrum
by allowing Secondary Users (SUs) to borrow the licensed spectrum if they do not cause …