Cognitive Radio Networks From Theory to Practice /

• Main Authors: Khattab, Ahmed (Author), Perkins, Dmitri (Author), Bayoumi, Magdy (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Analog Circuits and Signal Processing
• Subjects: Engineering.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Electronic circuits.; Circuits and Systems.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.

This book describes a communication paradigm that could shape the future of wireless communication networks, Opportunistic Spectrum Access (OSA) in Cognitive Radio Networks (CRN).  While several theoretical OSA approaches have been proposed, they are challenged by the practical limitations of cognit...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction. - Cognitive Radio Networking Preliminaries
• State-of-the-art of Cognitive Radio Networks.- Opportunistic Spectrum Access Challenges in Distributed Cognitive Radio Networks. - Rate-Adaptive Probabilistic Approach for Opportunistic Spectrum Access
• RAP-MAC Performance Optimization with Statistical PRN Guarantees
• RAP-MAC Performance Evaluation in Large-Scale Networks
• Hardware Implementation. - RAP-MAC Empirical Performance Evaluation. - Conclusions and Future Directions. - Glossary.