Yu F.R. (ed.) Cognitive Radio Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011. – 507 p.
Cognitive radio (CR) is an enabling technology to allow unlicensed (secondary users to exploit the spectrum allocated to licensed (primary) users in an opportunistic manner. CR is widely considered as a promising technology to deal with the spectrum shortage problem caused by the current inflexible spectrum allocation policy It is capable of sensing its radio environment, and adaptively choosing transmission parameters according to sensing outcomes, which improves cognitive radio system performance and avoids interfering with primary users. CR has been considered in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), which enable wireless devices to dynamically establish networks without necessarily using a fixed infrastructure. CR technology will have significant impacts on the performance in wireless networks, especially in MANETs.Dynamic Spectrum Access
Medium Access Control
Topology Control and Routing
Multimedia Transmissions
Applications of Cognitive Radio Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Game Theoretic Approach for Modeling and Optimization