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In order to meet the constantly increasing demand by mobile terminals for higher data rates with limited wireless spectrum resource, cognitive radio and spectrum aggregation technologies have attracted much attention due to its capacity in…
We consider two small cell operators deployed in the same geographical area, sharing spectrum resources from a common pool. A method is investigated to coordinate the utilization of the spectrum pool without monetary transactions and…
Cognitive radio methodologies have the potential to dramatically increase the throughput of wireless systems. Herein, control strategies which enable the superposition in time and frequency of primary and secondary user transmissions are…
Underlay cognitive radios (UCRs) allow a secondary user to enter a primary user's spectrum through intelligent utilization of multiuser channel quality information (CQI) and sharing of codebook. The aim of this work is to study two-user…
We consider the problem of Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Systems. We have developed a distributed algorithm that the Secondary users can run to sense the channel cooperatively. It is based on sequential detection algorithms which…
We investigate opportunistic cooperation between unlicensed secondary users and legacy primary users in a cognitive radio network. Specifically, we consider a model of a cognitive network where a secondary user can cooperatively transmit…
In this paper, we study the spectrum usage efficiency by applying wideband methods and systems to the existing analog systems and applications. The essential motivation of this work is to define the prospective coexistence between analog FM…
In cognitive radio systems, the ability to accurately detect primary user's signal is essential to secondary user in order to utilize idle licensed spectrum. Conventional energy detector is a good choice for blind signal detection, while it…
The concept of cognitive radio pioneered by Mitola promises to change the future of wireless communication especially in the area of spectrum management. Currently, the command and control strategy employed in spectrum assignment is too…
Reliable spectrum sensing is a key functionality of a cognitive radio network. Cooperative spectrum sensing improves the detection reliability of a cognitive radio system but also increases the system energy consumption which is a critical…
Multicasting is a fundamental networking primitive utilized by numerous applications. This also holds true for cognitive radio networks (CRNs) which have been proposed as a solution to the problems that emanate from the static non-adaptive…
Joint transmission is a kind of cooperative transmission technology, which converts other cell interference into signal. In this letter, for single-user joint transmission, we propose that a power pool can be created in order to increase…
In this paper, we study the system-level advantages provided by rateless coding, early termination and power allocation strategy for multiple users distributed across multiple cells. In a multi-cell scenario, the early termination of coded…
In this paper, performance of cognitive transmission over time-selective flat fading channels is studied under quality of service (QoS) constraints and channel uncertainty. Cognitive secondary users (SUs) are assumed to initially perform…
In this letter, a novel wireless powered protocol is proposed to maximize the system throughput of an energy harvesting (EH) based cognitive radio network, while satisfying a minimum primary user rate requirement. For EH, we exploit both…
In this paper, we consider the joint opportunistic routing and channel assignment problem in multi-channel multi-radio (MCMR) cognitive radio networks (CRNs) for improving aggregate throughput of the secondary users. We first present the…
In this paper, a new cooperation structure for spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks is proposed which outperforms the existing commonly-used ones in terms of energy efficiency. The efficiency is achieved in the proposed design by…
We consider the communication scenario where multiple cognitive users wish to communicate to the same receiver, in the presence of primary transmission. The cognitive transmitters are assumed to have the side information about the primary…
We consider a cognitive radio network with multiple primary users (PUs) and one secondary user (SU), where a spectrum server is utilized for spectrum sensing and scheduling the SU to transmit over one of the PU channels opportunistically.…
The multi-user diversity in spectrum sharing cognitive radio systems with average power constraints over fading channels is investigated. Average power constraints are imposed for both the transmit power at the secondary transmitter and the…