Cognitive radio technology has the potential to address the shortage of available radio
spectrum by enabling dynamic spectrum access. Since its introduction, researchers have …

The ever-increasing demand for higher data rates in wireless communications in the face of
limited or underutilized spectral resources has motivated the introduction of cognitive radio …

Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice, Third Edition provides students and IT professionals
with an in-depth analysis of the cloud from the ground up. After an introduction to network …

Spectrum sensing is a key function of cognitive radio to prevent the harmful interference with
licensed users and identify the available spectrum for improving the spectrum's utilization …

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 …

Cognitive radio is widely expected to be the next Big Bang in wireless communications.
Spectrum sensing, that is, detecting the presence of the primary users in a licensed …

In cognitive radio (CR) networks, secondary users can cooperatively sense the spectrum to
detect the presence of primary users. In this paper, we propose a fully distributed and …

This paper provides an overview of cognitive radio (CR) networks, with focus on the recent
advances in resource allocation techniques and the CR networks architectural design. The …

This paper focuses on the performance analysis and comparison of hard decision (HD) and
soft decision (SD) based approaches for cooperative spectrum sensing in the presence of …

The article analyzes the problem of energy efficient techniques in cooperative spectrum
sensing (CSS). Although it was proven that single-device sensing is not sufficient for reliable …