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Cognitive radio (CR) technology is regarded as a promising solution to the spectrum scarcity problem. Due to the spectrum varying nature of CR networks, unlicensed users are required to perform spectrum handoffs when licensed users reuse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-05 Yi Song , Jiang Xie

Spectrum shortage is a fundamental problem in wireless networks and this problem becomes increasingly acute with the rapid proliferation of wireless devices. To address this problem, spectrum sharing in the context of cognitive radio…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Pedram Kheirkhah Sangdeh , Hossein Pirayesh , Adnan Quadri , Huacheng Zeng

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-19 Vinod Sharma , ArunKumar Jayaprakasam

This paper considers cooperative spectrum sensing algorithms for Cognitive Radios which focus on reducing the number of samples to make a reliable detection. We develop an energy efficient detector with low detection delay using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-29 Jithin K. Sreedharan , Vinod Sharma

Nowadays, It has been shown that spectrum scarcity increased due to tremendous growth of new players in wireless base system by the evolution of the radio communication. Resent survey found that there are many areas of the radio spectrum…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-15 Santosh Kumar Singh , Krishna Chandra Roy , Vibhakar Pathak

A multiuser multiple-input multiple-output wireless communication system is analytically studied under the short-packet transmission regime. The practical scenario of channel estimation errors is adopted when the signals undergo Rayleigh…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Nikolaos I. Miridakis , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Hui-Ming Wang

In this letter, the problem of spectrum sensing is addressed for noncircular (NC) signal in cognitive radio networks with uncalibrated multiple antennas. Specifically, by taking both the standard covariance and complementary covariance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 An-Zhi Chen , Zhi-Ping Shi

Cognitive radio (CR) is found to be an emerging key for efficient spectrum utilization. In this paper, spectrum sharing among service providers with the help of cognitive radio has been investigated. The technique of spectrum sharing among…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-01-08 R. Kaniezhil , Dr. C. Chandrasekar

Spectrum sensing is a fundamental and critical issue for opportunistic spectrum access in cognitive radio networks. Among the many spectrum sensing methods, the information theoretic criteria (ITC) based method is a promising blind method…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-05 Rui Wang , Meixia Tao

As wireless networks transition toward 6G, high mobility, clustered scattering, and hardware impairments increasingly challenge classical assumptions on channel sparsity, resolvability, and stationarity. In these regimes, performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Hamza Haif , Abdelali Arous , Huseyin Arslan

In Cognitive Radio (CR) ad hoc networks, secondary users (SU) attempt to utilize valuable spectral resources without causing significant interference to licensed primary users (PU). While there is a large body of research on spectrum…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-10-31 Yuan Lu , Alexandra Duel-Hallen

In this paper we consider the capacity of the cognitive radio channel in different fading environments under a low interference regime. First we derive the probability that the low interference regime holds under shadow fading as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-03 Muhammad Fainan Hanif , Peter J. Smith

Radio-frequency (RF) impairments, which intimately exist in wireless communication systems, can severely limit the performance of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Although we can resort to compensation schemes to mitigate part…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Xinlin Zhang , Michail Matthaiou , Mikael Coldrey , Emil Björnson

Non-fixed flexible antenna architectures, such as fluid antenna system (FAS), movable antenna (MA), and pinching antenna, have garnered significant interest in recent years. Among them, rotatable antenna (RA) technology has recently drawn…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Yanhua Tan , Beixiong Zheng , Yi Fang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

The rapidly growing number of wireless devices running applications that require high bandwidths, has resulted in increasing demands for the unlicensed frequency spectrum. Given the scarcity of allocated unlicensed frequencies, meeting such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Nabil Giweli , Seyed Shahrestani , Hon Cheung

Cognitive radio (CR) is considered as a key enabling technology for dynamic spectrum access to improve spectrum efficiency. Although the CR concept was invented with the core idea of realizing cognition, the research on measuring CR…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Monireh Dabaghchian , Amir Alipour-Fanid , Songsong Liu , Kai Zeng , Xiaohua Li , Yu Chen

Spectrum sensing is of critical importance in any cognitive radio system. When the primary user's signal has uncertain parameters, the likelihood ratio test, which is the theoretically optimal detector, generally has no closed-form…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-07 Ziyu Ye , Qihang Peng , Kelly Levick , Hui Rong , Andrew Gilman , Pamela Cosman , Larry Milstein

In this letter, we consider the problem of energy detection of unknown signals in an intervehicular communication (IVC) system over n*Rayleigh fading channels (also known as cascaded Rayleigh). Novel tight approximations for the probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Yahia Alghorani , Georges Kaddoum , Sami Muhaidat , Samuel Pierre

Doppler effect is a fundamental phenomenon that appears in wave propagation, where a moving observer experiences dilation or contraction of wavelength of a wave. It also appears in radio frequency (RF) wireless communication when there…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Dushyantha A. Basnayaka , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

Cognitive radios hold tremendous promise for increasing the spectral efficiency of wireless communication systems. In this paper, an adaptive bit allocation algorithm is presented for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) CR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Ebrahim Bedeer , Mohamed Marey , Octavia Dobre , Kareem Baddour