With the development of wireless communication technology, the need for bandwidth is
increasing continuously, and the growing need makes wireless spectrum resources more …

The explosive popularity of small-cell and Internet of Everything devices has tremendously
increased traffic loads. This increase has revolutionised the current network into 5G …

With the rapid growth of demand for ever increasing data rates, spectrum resources have
become more and more scarce. As a promising technique to increase the efficiency of the …

As the complexities of wireless technologies increase, novel multidisciplinary approaches
for the spectrum sharing/management are required with inputs from the technology …

Spectrum Sensing (SS) plays an essential role in Cognitive Radio (CR) networks to
diagnose the availability of frequency resources. In this paper, we aim to provide an in-depth …

Cognitive radio technology can significantly improve spectrum utilization efficiency via
enabling secondary users to access licensed spectrum dynamically without harmful …

Are you involved in designing the next generation of wireless networks? With spectrum
becoming an ever scarcer resource, it is critical that new systems utilize all available …

In this paper, new enhanced cognitive radio networks (E-CRNs) based on spectrum sharing
(SS) and spectrum aggregation (SA) are proposed for fifth generation (5G) wireless …

Spectrum utilization, energy consumption, and cost efficiency are three key performance
metrics that should be jointly investigated in developing a sustainable 5G system. Advanced …

Cognitive radio networks hold the key to achieving better radio bandwidth utilization and
improving the quality of wireless applications. The next step in this fast emerging paradigm …