International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting

Spectrum Sharing and Sensing for Future Broadband Networks: The Cognitive Radio Technology


Publishing date
01 May 2010
Status
Published
Submission deadline
01 Nov 2009

1Texas A&M University-Texarkana, TX 75505, USA

2National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City 701, Taiwan

3California State University, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA

4Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy

5University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA


Spectrum Sharing and Sensing for Future Broadband Networks: The Cognitive Radio Technology

Description

A recent measurement campaign on spectrum utilization promoted by the Federal Communication Commission throughout the US has revealed that significant portions of the electromagnetic spectrum are rarely exploited for considerable intervals of time, thus paving the way to a number of possibilities for increasing bandwidth utilization among multiple users in shared radio networks. The clue to improve spectrum utilization, as well as efficiency, comes from communications systems exploiting the so-called Cognitive Radio technology, which at the physical layer, as well as at upper-levels of the network, can adaptively and dynamically allow users to access radio resources by switching among portions of unused bandwidth in different intervals of time.

The cognitive radio technology is still in its infancy, and many problems at a theoretical, as well as practical, level have to be solved before this technology may be fully exploited in next generation wireless networks.

The main aim of this special issue is to highlight state-of-the-art techniques on the most recent research advances in cognitive radio networks.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following subject categories:

  • Advanced algorithms on coding and modulation for software radio and cognitive radio networks
  • Cross-layer algorithms based on spectrum sensing techniques
  • Distributed algorithms for spectrum detection
  • Information theory and performance limits of dynamic spectrum access
  • Multimedia communications through cognitive networks
  • Physical-layer design of software radio and cognitive radio transceivers
  • Resource allocation for spectrum sharing in cognitive networks
  • Spectrum management in cognitive radio networks
  • Reconfigurable low-complexity transceiver architectures for channel adaptation in cognitive radio networks
  • Radio test beds
  • Regulatory policies on spectrum sharing for future broadband networks

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Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2010
  • - Article ID 898470
  • - Editorial

Spectrum Sharing and Sensing for Future Broadband Networks: The Cognitive Radio Technology

Massimiliano Laddomada | Hsiao Hwa Chen | ... | Hamid Sadjadpour
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2010
  • - Article ID 236568
  • - Review Article

A Survey of Cognitive Radio Access to TV White Spaces

Maziar Nekovee
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2010
  • - Article ID 160462
  • - Research Article

Fast Detection Method in Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks

Zhengyi Li | Lin Liu | Chi Zhou
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2010
  • - Article ID 905321
  • - Research Article

Backpropagation-Based Cooperative Localization of Primary User for Avoiding Hidden-Node Problem in Cognitive Networks

Lin Liu | Zhengyi Li | Chi Zhou
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2010
  • - Article ID 985458
  • - Research Article

Cross-Layer Throughput Optimization in Cognitive Radio Networks with SINR Constraints

Miao Ma | Danny H. K. Tsang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2010
  • - Article ID 531857
  • - Research Article

Nonconvex Optimization of Collaborative Multiband Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radios with Genetic Algorithms

Michele Sanna | Maurizio Murroni
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2010
  • - Article ID 823494
  • - Research Article

Opportunistic Communication (Cognitive Radio) over Primary Discarded Subchannels by Applying a Double Power Distribution

G. A. Medina-Acosta | José A. Delgado-Penín
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2010
  • - Article ID 740594
  • - Research Article

The Information Theoretic Approach to Signal Anomaly Detection for Cognitive Radio

Mostafa Afgani | Sinan Sinanović | Harald Haas
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2010
  • - Article ID 424036
  • - Research Article

Collaborative Spectrum Sensing Optimisation Algorithms for Cognitive Radio Networks

Kamran Arshad | Muhammad Ali Imran | Klaus Moessner
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2010
  • - Article ID 458636
  • - Research Article

Resource Allocation with MAC Layer Node Cooperation in Cognitive Radio Networks

Andreas Merentitis | Dionysia Triantafyllopoulou
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