Several potential benefits to the quality and reliability of delivered power can be attained
with the installation of distributed generation units. To take full advantage of these benefits, it …

With the rapid deployment of new wireless devices and applications, the last decade has
witnessed a growing demand for wireless radio spectrum. However, the fixed spectrum …

It has been a long-held belief that judicious resource allocation is critical to mitigating
interference, improving network efficiency, and ultimately optimizing wireless communication …

Device-to-device communications enable two proximity users to transmit signal directly
without going through the base station. It can increase network spectral efficiency and …

Physical (PHY) layer security approaches for wireless communications can prevent
eavesdrop** without upper layer data encryption. However, they are hampered by …

Game theoretical techniques have recently become prevalent in many engineering
applications, notably in communications. With the emergence of cooperation as a new …

Peer-to-peer communication has been recently considered as a popular issue for local area
services. An innovative resource allocation scheme is proposed to improve the performance …

Spectrum decision is the ability of a cognitive radio (CR) to select the best available
spectrum band to satisfy secondary users'(SUs') quality of service (QoS) requirements …

Wireless charging is a technique of transmitting power through an air gap to an electrical
device for the purpose of energy replenishment. Recently, wireless charging technology has …

Crucial to the successful deployment of cognitive radio networks, security issues have
begun to receive research interests recently. In this paper, we focus on defending against …