Full-duplex (FD) communication is a potential game changer for future wireless networks. It
allows for simultaneous transmit and receive operations over the same frequency band, a …

In order to provide meaningful data about spectrum use, occupancy measurements
describing the utilization rate of a specific frequency band should be conducted over a …

Cognitive radio (CR)-based Internet of Things (IoT) system is an effective step toward a
world of smart technology. Many frameworks have been proposed to build CR-based IoT …

Coalition structure is an efficient networking architecture for task implementation in
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks. However, both the formation of coalition and the …

Internet of things (IoT) paradigm poses new challenges to the communication technology as
numerous heterogeneous objects will need to be connected. To address these issues new …

The rapid increase in mobile users, the IoT, and data-hungry applications have brought forth
unprecedented demand on the spectrum, which is scarce; on top of that, the existing static …

Cognitive radio is a technology developed for the effective use of radio spectrum sources.
The spectrum sensing function plays a key role in the performance of cognitive radio …

Composite fading (ie, multipath fading and shadowing together) has increasingly been
analyzed by means of the K channel and related models. Nevertheless, these models do …

Cognitive radio network (CRN) is a pioneering technology that was developed to improve
efficiency in spectrum utilization. It provides the secondary users with the privilege to …

A green-energy-powered cognitive radio (CR) network is capable of liberating the wireless
access networks from spectral and energy constraints. The limitation of the spectrum is …