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The frequency spectrum is an essential resource for wireless communication. Special sections of the spectrum are used for military purposes, governments sell some frequency bands to broadcasting and mobile communications companies for…
We consider a cognitive radio scenario where a primary and a secondary user wish to communicate with their corresponding receivers simultaneously over frequency selective channels. Under realistic assumptions that the secondary transmitter…
In this paper, we investigate transmission techniques for a fundamental cooperative cognitive radio network, i.e., a radio system where a Secondary user may act as relay for messages sent by the Primary user, hence offering performance…
Spectrum sensing technology is a crucial aspect of modern communication technology, serving as one of the essential techniques for efficiently utilizing scarce information resources in tight frequency bands. This paper first introduces…
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…
This paper considers a modified Erlang loss system for cognitive wireless networks and related applications. A primary user has preemptive priority over secondary users and the primary customer is lost if upon arrival all the channels are…
In cognitive radio networks, when secondary users transmit in the null space of their interference channel with primary user, they can avoid interference. However, performance of this scheme depends on knowledge of channel state information…
Primary user activity is a major bottleneck for existing routing protocols in cognitive radio networks. Typical routing protocols avoid areas that are highly congested with primary users, leaving only a small fragment of available links for…
In this paper, we introduce the exposed secondary users problem in underlay cognitive radio systems, where both the secondary-to-primary and primary-to-secondary channels have a Line-of-Sight (LoS) component. Based on a Rician model for the…
In this paper, we propose a cooperative approach to improve the security of both primary and secondary systems in cognitive radio multicast communications. During their access to the frequency spectrum licensed to the primary users, the…
Designing an efficient scheme in physical layer enables cognitive radio (CR) users to efficiently utilize resources dedicated to primary users (PUs). In this paper in order to maximize the SU's throughput, the SU's transceivers beamforming…
Unlike point-to-point cognitive radio, where the constraint imposed by the primary rigidly curbs the secondary throughput, multiple secondary users have the potential to more efficiently harvest the spectrum and share it among themselves.…
In cognitive radio, spectrum sensing is a key component to detect spectrum holes (i.e., channels not used by any primary users). Collaborative spectrum sensing among the cognitive radio nodes is expected to improve the ability of checking…
Interference alignment aims to achieve maximum degrees of freedom in an interference system. For achieving Interference alignment in interfering broadcast systems a closed-form solution is proposed in [1] which is an extension of the…
In this paper, pilot-symbol-assisted transmission in cognitive radio systems over time selective flat fading channels is studied. It is assumed that causal and noncausal Wiener filter estimators are used at the secondary receiver with the…
Cognitive Radio (CR) technology is a solution to solve the lack of spectrum by allowing the secondary user to use licensed bands. There are several potential security challenges for cognitive radio like Jamming, PUE and Lion attack. Lion…
This paper introduces a machine learning based collaborative multi-band spectrum sensing policy for cognitive radios. The proposed sensing policy guides secondary users to focus the search of unused radio spectrum to those frequencies that…
In this paper, we consider a model in which the unlicensed or the Secondary User (SU) equipped with a Cognitive Radio (CR) (together referred to as CR) interweaves its transmission with that of the licensed or the Primary User (PU). In this…
Kalman filtering is a classic state estimation technique used in application areas such as signal processing and autonomous control of vehicles. It is now being used to solve problems in computer systems such as controlling the voltage and…
Due to the recent developments in the field of full-duplex radios and cognitive radios, a new class of reactive jamming attacks has gained attention wherein an adversary transmits jamming energy over the victim's frequency band and also…