Cognitive Radio Communications and Networks

This book provides a comprehensive and balanced coverage of the implementation, including the implementation of the concept of cognitive radio communications. Case studies, end-of-chapter questions, give a hands-on note, cognitive radio systems. Extensive treatment is given to several standards, including IEEE 802.22 for TV White Spaces and IEEE SCC41.

Written by leading engineers, R & D engineers, researchers, undergraduates and post graduate students. implementation of cognitive radio systems and networks.

• Each chapter is written by internationally renowned experts, giving a complete and balanced approach to cognitive radio networks.


• Extensive treatment of compliant cognitive systems


• Strong practical orientation - through case studies and descriptions of cognitive radio platforms and testbeds - shows how "real world" cognitive radio systems and network architectures have been built


• Additional materials, slides, solutions to end-of-chapter problems, and sample codes, are available at www.elsevierdirect.com/companions

Alexander M. Wyglinski is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Director of the WPI Limerick Project Center, and Director of the Wireless Innovation Laboratory (WI Lab).

Maziar Nekovee leads cognitive radio research at BT (British Telecom). R & D projects on cognitive radio networks and secondary / dynamic spectrum access.

Y. Thomas Hou is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ("Virginia Tech"), Blacksburg, VA, USA.

• Each chapter is written by internationally renowned experts, giving a complete and balanced approach to cognitive radio networks.


• Extensive treatment of compliant cognitive systems


• Strong practical orientation - through case studies and descriptions of cognitive radio platforms and testbeds - shows how "real world" cognitive radio systems and network architectures have been built


• Additional materials, slides, solutions to end-of-chapter problems, and sample codes, are available at www.elsevierdirect.com/companions

When radio meets software; Radio frequency spectrum and regulation; Digital communication fundamentals for cognitive radio; Spectrum sensing and identification; Spectrum access and sharing; Agile transmission techniques; Reconfiguration, adaptation, and optimization; Fundamentals of communication networks; Cognitive radio network architectures; User cooperative communications; Information theoretical limits on cognitive radio networks; Cross-layer optimization for multi-cognitive radio networks; Defining cognitive radio; Cognitive radio for broadband wireless access in TV bands: The IEEE 802.22 standards; Cognitive radio network security; Public safety and cognitive radio; Auction-based spectrum markets in cognitive radio networks; GNU radio for cognitive radio experimentation; Cognitive radio platforms and testbeds; Cognitive radio evolution; Appendices: GNU radio experimentation