Cognitive Radio Networks and Spectrum Sensing

Dynamic spectrum access stands as a promising and spectrum-efficient communication approach for resource-constrained multihop wireless sensor networks due to their event-driven communication nature, which generally yields bursty traffic depending on the event characteristics. In addition, opportunistic spectrum access…

• ÖZGÜR ERGÜL

Dynamic spectrum access stands as a promising and spectrum-efficient communication approach for resource-constrained multihop wireless sensor networks due to their event-driven communication nature, which generally yields bursty traffic depending on the event characteristics. In addition, opportunistic spectrum access…

• ÖZGÜR BARIŞ AKAN

Latest regulations on TV white space communications and emerging trends of spectrum access through geolocation databases relax the regulatory constraints on Cognitive Radios (CRs). Geolocation databases are designed to store information related to incumbents, and CRs are envisioned to consult this database before spec…

• FATİH ALAGÖZ
• HÜSEYİN BİRKAN YILMAZ

Latest regulations on TV white space communications and emerging trends of spectrum access through geolocation databases relax the regulatory constraints on Cognitive Radios (CRs). Geolocation databases are designed to store information related to incumbents, and CRs are envisioned to consult this database before spec…

• FATİH ALAGÖZ

Cognitive functions in wireless network nodes are beneficial for leveraging intricate trade-offs among energy efficiency, performance and practicality. There are two fundamental but entangled aspects of cognitive radios in the green communications context: leveraging CRs for energy efficiency and operation of CRs with…

• FATİH ALAGÖZ

We define and propose a femtocell-based cognitive radio architecture for enabling multitiered opportunistic access in next-generation broadband wireless systems. This architecture combines the conventional femtocell idea with an infrastructure-based overlay cognitive network paradigm. The cognitive femtocell concept l…

• FATİH ALAGÖZ

We define and propose a femtocell-based cognitive radio architecture for enabling multitiered opportunistic access in next-generation broadband wireless systems. This architecture combines the conventional femtocell idea with an infrastructure-based overlay cognitive network paradigm. The cognitive femtocell concept l…

• FATİH ALAGÖZ

TV white space refers to TV channels that are not used by any licensed services at a particular location and at a particular time. To exploit this unused TVWS spectrum for improved spectrum efficiency, regulatory agencies have begun developing regulations to permit its use this TVWS by unlicensed wireless devices as l…

• TUNÇER BAYKAŞ

One of the major goals of cognitive radio (CR) is to alleviate the inefficient use of the spectrum. CR can sense the spectrum steadily and gather information about the evolution of the spectrum in time. Spectrum occupancy information can be used for both learning the usage of the spectrum and predicting the future occ…

Location awareness is an essential characteristic of cognitive radios as well as networks. In this article a location awareness engine architecture is proposed for the realization of location awareness in cognitive radios and networks. The proposed architecture consists of location estimation and/or sensing, seamless…

• HASARİ ÇELEBİ
• HÜSEYİN ARSLAN

With growing concern about environmental issues and an emerging green communications paradigm, cognitive radio (CR) networks (CRNs) have to be considered from the energy efficiency perspective. In this paper, we focus on scheduling in CRNs, in which a cognitive base station (CBS) makes frequency allocations to the CRs…

• FATİH ALAGÖZ

Cognitive Radio (CR) and its dynamic spectrum access capabilities can be exploited by many wireless network architectures including sensor networks. Thus, cognitive radio sensor networks (CRSN) has emerged as a promising solution to address the spectrum-related challenges of wireless sensor networks (WSN). Among other…

• ÖZGÜR BARIŞ AKAN