Abstract—Cognitive radio (CR) technology enables the opportunistic use of the vacant licensed frequency bands, thereby improving the spectrum utilization. However, the CR operati...
—Open spectrum systems allow unlicensed secondary users equipped with cognitive radio to opportunistically access the spectrum underutilized by primary users. Cognitive radio has...
— In cognitive radio, spectrum sensing is a key component to detect spectrum holes (i.e., channels not used by any primary users). Collaborative spectrum sensing among the cognit...
Spectrum sensing, which aims at detecting spectrum holes, is the precondition for the implementation of cognitive radio. Collaborative spectrum sensing among the cognitive radio n...
— In this paper, we investigate the channel selection strategy for secondary users in cognitive radio networks. We claim that in order to avoid the costly channel switchings, a s...