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In this paper, the problem of joint design of Spectrum Sensing (SS) and receive beamforming (BF), with reference to a Cognitive Radio (CR) system, is considered. The aim of the proposed design is the maximization of the achievable average…
The main challenges of cognitive radio include spectrum sensing at the physical (PHY) layer to detect the activity of primary users and spectrum sharing at the medium access control (MAC) layer to coordinate access among coexisting…
With the advent of the 5th generation of wireless standards and an increasing demand for higher throughput, methods to improve the spectral efficiency of wireless systems have become very important. In the context of cognitive radio, a…
A communication setup is considered where a transmitter wishes to convey a message to a receiver and simultaneously estimates the state of that receiver through a common waveform. The state is estimated at the transmitter by means of…
Cognitive radio (CR) systems allow opportunistic, secondary users (SUs) to access portions of the spectrum that are unused by the network's licensed primary users (PUs), provided that the induced interference does not compromise the primary…
The feasibility of practical in-band full-duplex radios has recently been demonstrated experimentally. One way to leverage full-duplex in a network setting is to enable three-node full-duplex, where a full- duplex access point (AP)…
Owing to the ever-increasing demand in wireless spectrum, Cognitive Radio (CR) was introduced as a technique to attain high spectral efficiency. As the number of secondary users (SUs) connecting to the cognitive radio network is on the…
Spectrum sensing is an essential functionality that enables cognitive radios to detect spectral holes and opportunistically use under-utilized frequency bands without causing harmful interference to primary networks. Since individual…
A memoryless state-dependent multiple-access channel (MAC) is considered, where two transmitters wish to convey their messages to a single receiver while simultaneously sensing (estimating) the respective states via generalized feedbacks.…
In this paper, we tackle the problem of opportunistic spectrum access in large-scale cognitive radio networks, where the unlicensed Secondary Users (SU) access the frequency channels partially occupied by the licensed Primary Users (PU).…
An energy harvesting cognitive radio scenario is considered where a secondary user (SU) with finite battery capacity opportunistically accesses the primary user (PU) channels. The objective is to maximize the throughput of SU under energy…
Most of the research in cognitive radio field is primarily focused on finding and improving secondary user (SU) performance parameters such as bit error rate, outage probability and capacity etc. Less attention is being paid towards the…
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…
The sixth-generation (6G) network is expected to provide both communication and sensing (C&S) services. However, spectrum scarcity poses a major challenge to the harmonious coexistence of C&S systems. Without effective cooperation, the…
We consider a cognitive radio network scenario where a primary transmitter and a secondary transmitter, respectively, communicate a message to their respective primary receiver and secondary receiver over a packet-based wireless link, using…
Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems promise to revolutionize wireless networks by concurrently supporting high-resolution sensing and high-performance communication. This paper presents a novel radio access technology (RAT)…
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) enhances signal quality by adjusting the phase of electromagnetic waves in wireless communication. Spatial modulation (SM), a prominent index modulation (IM) technique, provides high spectral…
We investigate resource allocation in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems exploiting movable antennas (MAs) to enhance system performance. Unlike the existing ISAC literature, we account for dynamic radar cross-section (RCS)…
Secured opportunistic Medium Access Control (MAC) and complexity reduction in channel estimation are proposed in the Cross layer design Cognitive Radio Networks deploying the secured dynamic channel allocation from the endorsed channel…
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising technique to provide sensing services in future wireless networks. Numerous existing works have adopted a monostatic radar architecture to realize ISAC, i.e., employing the same…