Abstract Vehicular Sensor Network (VSN) emerged due to recent developments in Wireless
Sensor Network (WSN) and functioning as a way for observing metropolitan environments …

In cognitive radio (CR) networks, cooperative spectrum sensing is utilized to improve the
sensing performance to avoid potential interference to primary users (PUs) and increase …

In this article, a disaster response network (DRN) aided by an unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) is studied. We consider a number of uplink cellular users as primary users (PUs) …

In the last decades, under technological progress in electronic and avionics systems,
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have known an increasing use in several military and …

In the past decade, Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) research has flourished, particularly
in the context of smart cities, where it plays a pivotal role in supporting intelligent …

This paper investigates the impact of battery charging on a cognitive radio network (CRN),
where a hybrid overlay-underlay strategy enables mobile secondary nodes to access the …

Radio spectrum sensing (SS) has been an active topic of research over the past years due
to its importance to cognitive radio (CR) systems. However, in CR networks (CRNs) with …

In multi-channel cognitive radio networks, it is important to investigate the sensing-
throughput tradeoff from cross-layer perspective. Jointly considering imperfect spectrum …

We consider a scenario where multiple Secondary Users (SUs) operate within a Cognitive
Radio Network (CRN) which involves a set of channels, where each channel is associated …

Cognitive radio spectrum sensing is an important issue in today's emerging communication
techniques. Similarly, vehicular networks are vital considering the increasing traffic on roads …