Time-critical and delay-sensitive multimedia applications require more spectrum and
transmission resources. With the provision of cognitive radios (CRs), the underutilized …

The stringent requirements of wireless multimedia transmission lead to very high radio
spectrum solicitation. Although the radio spectrum is considered as a scarce resource, the …

Nowadays energy crisis and global warming problems are hanging over everyone's head,
urging much research work on energy saving. In the ICT industry, which is becoming a major …

The future smart cities vision can be developed through leveraging the potentials of Internet
of Things (IoT) and wireless sensor network (WSN) technologies. WSN is a resource …

Due to the recent developments in the wireless mesh and ad-hoc networks, multi-hop
cognitive radio networks (MCRNs) have attained the significant attention towards providing …

Presently, we rely on the wireless devices and systems to not only enable on-demand,
pervasive communications for a large proportion of the population, but also other critical …

Cross-layer communication could bring a significant performance improvement for wireless
communication systems through allowing information exchanges among multiple layers. For …

Video streaming, as a bandwidth-hungry and delay-sensitive application, can be supported
with the Cognitive Radio (CR) technology, which is effective in exploiting the underutilized …

In a cognitive radio (CR) network, a secondary user (SU) with multiple interfaces is capable
of accessing multiple CR channels in an opportunistic fashion. Therefore, the available …

Due to the drastic increase in wireless video traffic, the capacity of the existing and future
wireless networks will be greatly stressed, while interference will become the dominant …