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Nowadays, cognitive radio is one of the most promising paradigms in the arena of wireless communications, as it aims at the proficient use of radio resources. Proper utilization of the radio spectrum requires dynamic spectrum accessing. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Sk. Shariful Alam , Lucio Marcenaro , Carlo Regazzoni

The key challenge in admission control in wireless networks is to strike an optimal trade-off between the blocking probability for new requests while minimizing the dropping probability of ongoing requests. We consider two approaches for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Youri Raaijmakers , Silvio Mandelli , Mark Doll

A fundamental problem in cognitive radio systems is that the cognitive radio is ignorant of the primary channel state and, hence, of the amount of actual harm it inflicts on the primary license holder. Sensing the primary transmitter does…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-11-27 Ahmed ElSamadouny , Mohammed Nafie , Ahmed Sultan

In this paper, we study the problem of dynamic channel allocation for URLLC traffic in a multi-user multi-channel wireless network where urgent packets have to be successfully transmitted in a timely manner. We formulate the problem as a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Nesrine Ben-Khalifa , Mohamad Assaad , Mérouane Debbah

Reinforcement learning is a powerful technique for developing new robot behaviors. However, typical lack of safety guarantees constitutes a hurdle for its practical application on real robots. To address this issue, safe reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Maeva Guerrier , Hassan Fouad , Giovanni Beltrame

This paper considers reliable and secure Spectrum Sensing (SS) based on Federated Learning (FL) in the Cognitive Radio (CR) environment. Motivation, architectures, and algorithms of FL in SS are discussed. Security and privacy threats on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 Malgorzata Wasilewska , Hanna Bogucka , H. Vincent Poor

A cognitive radio system has the ability to observe and learn from the environment, adapt to the environmental conditions, and use the radio spectrum more efficiently. However, due to multipath fading, shadowing, or varying channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Fatima Salahdine , Naima Kaabouch , Hassan Ghazi

For all its successes, Reinforcement Learning (RL) still struggles to deliver formal guarantees on the closed-loop behavior of the learned policy. Among other things, guaranteeing the safety of RL with respect to safety-critical systems is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-03 Sebastien Gros , Mario Zanon , Alberto Bemporad

Cognitive Radio has been proposed as a key technology to significantly improve spectrum usage in wireless networks by enabling unlicensed users to access unused resource. We present new algorithms that are needed for the implementation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Hamed Mahmoudi , Georgios Rodolakis , Leonidas Georgiadis , David Saad

Machine learning has been widely applied in wireless communications. However, the security aspects of machine learning in wireless applications have not been well understood yet. We consider the case that a cognitive transmitter senses the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yi Shi , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Jason H. Li

Cognitive radio technology enables improving the utilization efficiency of the precious and scarce radio spectrum. How to maximize the overall spectrum efficiency while minimizing the conflicts with primary users is vital to cognitive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Xinran Chen , Zhe Chen , Sai Xie , Yongshuai Shao

In this paper, we consider the multichannel rendezvous problem in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) where the probability that two users hopping on the same channel have a successful rendezvous is a function of channel states. The channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Jen-Hung Wang , Ping-En Lu , Cheng-Shang Chang , Duan-Shin Lee

We examine deterministic broadcasting on multiple-access channels for a scenario when packets are injected continuously by an adversary to the buffers of the devices at rate $\rho$ packages per round. The aim is to maintain system…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Elijah Hradovich , Marek Klonowski , Dariusz R. Kowalski

Reinforcement learning has become a powerful paradigm for improving the capability of intelligent systems, but its practical deployment faces two central challenges. First, reinforcement learning must scale efficiently in distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Guangchen Lan

In this paper, the problem of opportunistic channel sensing and access in cognitive radio networks when the sensing is imperfect and a secondary user has limited traffic to send at a time is investigated. Primary users' statistical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-23 Zhou Zhang , Hai Jiang , Peng Tan , Jim Slevinsky

In this paper, we consider the channel allocation problem for throughput maximization in cognitive radio networks with hardware-constrained secondary users. Specifically, we assume that secondary users exploit spectrum holes on a set of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Le Thanh Tan , Long Bao Le

When should an online reinforcement learning-based frequency agile cognitive radar be expected to outperform a rule-based adaptive waveform selection strategy? We seek insight regarding this question by examining a dynamic spectrum access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Charles E. Thornton , R. Michael Buehrer

This paper investigates a machine learning-based power allocation design for secure transmission in a cognitive radio (CR) network. In particular, a neural network (NN)-based approach is proposed to maximize the secrecy rate of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Miao Zhang , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Jeyarajan Thiyagalingam , Yanqun Tang , Wei Wang , Zhiguo Ding , Octavia A. Dobre

Cognitive radio (CR) is an important technique for improving spectral efficiency, letting a secondary system operate in a wireless spectrum when the primary system does not make use of it. While it has been widely explored over the past 25…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Omer Gokalp Serbetci , Lei Chu , Andreas F. Molisch

Recent advancements in machine learning and reinforcement learning have brought increased attention to their applicability in a range of decision-making tasks in the operations of power systems, such as short-term emergency control,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Yize Chen , Daniel Arnold , Yuanyuan Shi , Sean Peisert