Abstract :
"Cognitive radio" is emerging as a promising technology to cope with the spectrum scarcity as well as the spectrum underutilization problem in the next generation wireless communications systems. This book, Cognitive Wireless Communication Networks, edited by Ekram Hossain and Vijay Bhargava, puts together a rich set of research articles featuring recent advances in theory, design, and analysis of cognitive wireless communication networks. The book consists of 15 invited articles from distinguished researchers in this area, which cover a wide range of topics related to the cognitive radio technology. In particular, the topics covered in this book include fundamental challenges and issues in designing cognitive radio systems, information-theoretic analysis of cognitive radio systems, spectrum sensing and co-existence issues, adaptive physical layer protocols and link adaptation techniques for cognitive radio, orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDM) and ultra wide band (UWB)- based cognitive radio, different techniques for spectrum access by distributed cognitive radio, cognitive medium access control (MAC) protocols, decentralized learning-based dynamic spectrum access methods, and microeconomic models for spectrum management in cognitive radio.
