Self-Organization and Green Applications in Cognitive Radio Networks

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Foreword
Abbas Jamalipour 
Preface
Anwer Al-Dulaimi, John Cosmas, Abbas Mohammed
Chapter 1
Technical Challenges in 4G Cognitive Femtocell Systems (pages 1-25)
Saba Al-Rubaye, John Cosmas
This chapter studies the application of femtocells as part of the future cognitive 4G networks. It starts with a demonstration for the evolution of...  
Chapter 2
Large Scale Cognitive Wireless Networks: Architecture and Application (pages 26-52)
Liang Song, Petros Spachos, Dimitrios Hatzinakos
Cognitive radio has been proposed to have spectrum agility (or opportunistic spectrum access). In this chapter, the authors introduce the extended...  
Chapter 3
Iterative Optimization of Energy Detector Sensing Time and Periodic Sensing Interval in Cognitive Radio Networks (pages 53-69)
Mohamed Hamid, Niclas Björsell, Abbas Mohammed
In this chapter the authors propose a new approach for optimizing the sensing time and periodic sensing interval for energy detectors in cognitive...  
Chapter 4
Self-Organization in IEEE Standard 1900.4-Based Cognitive Radio Networks (pages 70-88)
Majed Haddad, Eitan Altman, Sana ben Jemaa, Salah Eddine Elayoubi, Zwi Altman
Distributing Radio Resource Management (RRM) in heterogeneous wireless networks is an important research and development axis that aims at reducing...  
Chapter 5
Cross-Layer Design in Cognitive Radio Systems (pages 89-110)
Krishna Nehra, Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei
The main functionalities of a cognitive radio system, to ensure efficient operation of the primary users without harmful intervention from the...  

Chapter 6
Interference Suppression Capabilities of Smart Cognitive-Femto Networks (SCFN) (pages 111-135)
Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir, Rachad Atat, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Cognitive Radios are considered a standard part of future heterogeneous mobile network architectures. In this chapter, a two tier heterogeneous...  

Chapter 7
A Novel Spectrum Sensing Scheduling Algorithm for Cognitive Radio Networks (pages 136-153)
Sami H. O. Salih, Maria Erman, Abbas Mohammed
Cognitive Radios are recognized as a novel approach to improve the utilization of a precious natural resource of wireless communications: the radio... 
Chapter 8
MAC Layer Protocols for Cognitive Radio Networks (pages 154-189)
Lokesh Chouhan, Aditya Trivedi
In the last few decades, the Cognitive Radio (CR) paradigm has received huge interest from industry and academia. CR is a promising approach to...  

Chapter 9
MAC Protocols for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks: Sensing Error-Aware and Spectrum Access Strategies (pages 190-209)
Abdullah Masrub
In contrast to infrastructure-based networks, in wireless ad hoc networks nodes can discover and communicate with each other directly without...  

Chapter 10
MAC Layer Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks (pages 210-230)
Mohamed Hamid, Abbas Mohammed
Efficient use of the available licensed radio spectrum is becoming increasingly difficult as the demand and usage of the radio spectrum increases....  

Chapter 11
A Survey of High Performance Cryptography Algorithms for WiMAX Applications Using SDR (pages 231-246)
Rafidah Ahmad, Widad Ismail
As wireless broadband technology has become very popular, the introduction of Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) based on IEEE...  
Chapter 12
Genetic Algorithms for Decision-Making in Cognitive Radio Networks (pages 247-263)
Tommy Hult, Abbas Mohammed
Efficient use of the available licensed radio spectrum is becoming increasingly difficult as the demand and usage of the radio spectrum increases....  
Chapter 13
A Survey of Radio Resource Management in Cognitive Radio Networks (pages 264-289)
Chengshi Zhao, Wenping Li, Jing Li, Zheng Zhou, Kyungsup Kwak
The framework of “green communications” has been proposed as a promising approach to address the issue of improving resource-efficiency and the...  
Chapter 14
Secondary Use of Radio Spectrum by High Altitude Platform (pages 290-300)
Zhe Yang, Abbas Mohammed
Traditional spectrum licensing enables guaranteed quality of service but could lead to inefficient use of the spectrum. The quest to achieve higher...  
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