— Spectrum scarcity is becoming a major issue for service providers interested in either deploying new services or enhancing the capacity for existing applications. On the other ...
The knowledge of channel statistics can be very helpful in making sound opportunistic spectrum access decisions. It is therefore desirable to be able to efficiently and accurately...
Abstract--A common concept to mitigate the effects of spectrum scarcity is to allow opportunistic dynamic spectrum access (DSA) to licensed frequency bands. In this context, the li...
Jad Nasreddine, Andreas Achtzehn, Janne Riihij&aum...
Establishing a control channel for medium access control is a challenging problem in multi-channel and dynamic spectrum access (DSA) networks. In the design of multi-channel MAC p...
—Open spectrum systems allow unlicensed secondary users equipped with cognitive radio to opportunistically access the spectrum underutilized by primary users. Cognitive radio has...