— Recent studies indicate the presence of a significant amount of idle licensed spectrum, in different time periods and geographic locations. Prompted by the latest regulatory ch...
George Alyfantis, Giannis F. Marias, Stathes Hadji...
—Several measurement studies have found a large amount of underutilized radio spectrum. More flexible regulation employing dynamic spectrum access (DSA) has been proposed as sol...
Today's wireless networks are characterized by a fixed spectrum assignment policy. However, a large portion of the assigned spectrum is used sporadically and geographical var...
Ian F. Akyildiz, Won-Yeol Lee, Mehmet C. Vuran, Sh...
— We consider a cognitive radio system like the future 802.22 networks where license-exempt service providers (SPs) will share a fixed spectrum in a non-interference basis to ea...
Abstract - In this paper we present a design of a medium access control protocol that allows the utilization of unused licensed spectrum of deployed wireless cellular systems (Prim...