Cognitive radio networking and communications: An overview

YC Liang, KC Chen, GY Li… - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cognitive radio (CR) is the enabling technology for supporting dynamic spectrum access:
the policy that addresses the spectrum scarcity problem that is encountered in many …

A survey on security threats and detection techniques in cognitive radio networks

AG Fragkiadakis, EZ Tragos… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid proliferation of new technologies and services in the wireless domain,
spectrum scarcity has become a major concern. The allocation of the Industrial, Medical and …

CRAHNs: Cognitive radio ad hoc networks

IF Akyildiz, WY Lee, KR Chowdhury - AD hoc networks, 2009 - Elsevier
Cognitive radio (CR) technology is envisaged to solve the problems in wireless networks
resulting from the limited available spectrum and the inefficiency in the spectrum usage by …

A survey on MAC protocols for cognitive radio networks

C Cormio, KR Chowdhury - Ad Hoc Networks, 2009 - Elsevier
In cognitive radio (CR) networks, identifying the available spectrum resource through
spectrum sensing, deciding on the optimal sensing and transmission times, and …

A survey of common control channel design in cognitive radio networks

BF Lo - Physical communication, 2011 - Elsevier
Cognitive radio networks have been recognized as a promising paradigm to address the
spectrum under-utilization problem. To improve spectrum efficiency, many operations such …

Common control channel design for cognitive radio wireless ad hoc networks using adaptive frequency hop**

C Cormio, KR Chowdhury - Ad Hoc Networks, 2010 - Elsevier
Cognitive radio (CR) technology enables the opportunistic use of the portions of the licensed
spectrum by the CR users, while ensuring low interference to the primary user (PU) activity …

Medium access control protocols in cognitive radio networks: Overview and general classification

L Gavrilovska, D Denkovski, V Rakovic… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Cognitive Radio and the Cognitive Radio Networks have recently become one of the
most intensively studied paradigms in wireless communications. The main distinctive …

OFDM-based common control channel design for cognitive radio ad hoc networks

KR Chowdhury, IF Akyldiz - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cognitive radio (CR) technology allows devices to opportunistically use the vacant portions
of the licensed wireless spectrum. However, the available spectrum changes dynamically …

A survey on dynamic spectrum access protocols for distributed cognitive wireless networks

P Ren, Y Wang, Q Du, J Xu - EURASIP Journal on Wireless …, 2012 - Springer
With the rapid development of wireless communications technologies, radio spectrum has
become a type of extremely scarce resources in meeting the increasing demands for …

A layered approach to cognitive radio network security: A survey

D Hlavacek, JM Chang - Computer Networks, 2014 - Elsevier
Cognitive radios have been identified as a solution to the crowded spectrum issue. With the
realization of cognitive radio networks came the recognition that both new and old security …