Growing demand of reliable and affordable wireless connectivity requires alternative
solutions and television white space (TVWS) provides that opportunity. However, the biggest …

Cognitive networks (CN) introduce an adaptable architecture that enables efficient sharing
of transmission resources among heterogeneous networks. While quality-of-service (QoS) …

Cognitive networks (CN) introduce an adaptable network architecture which enables
efficient sharing of transmission resources among heterogeneous networks. Traditional CN …

This thesis proposes solutions to address the white space (WS) spectrum decision and
management problem in WS radio networks (WSRNs). We conducted field spectrum …

An important challenge to guarantee the successful operation of white space networks
based on spectrum sharing, in a heterogeneous wireless network environment, is mitigation …

Spectrum decision is the ability of a cognitive radio (CR) system to select the best available
spectrum band to satisfy dynamic spectrum access network (DSAN) users' quality of service …

Radio resource allocation techniques play a key role in determining the performance of
wireless networks and quality-of-service (QoS) offered to various applications supported by …

In television white space networks, secondary users are mandatory to query an accredited
geo-location spectrum database (GSDB) in order to determine the vacant channels or white …

Exponential growth of the wireless communications demands for efficient use of the limited
available radio spectrum for network communications. Current fixed spectrum usage …