— Development in new radio technologies and increase in user demands are driving the deployment of a wide array of wireless networks, ranging from 802.11 networks in the local ar...
Abstract— Spectrum-agile radios, also known as cognitive radios, have a great potential to improve spectrum utilization by enabling dynamic access to the spectrum. A key challeng...
—Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are networks of distributed autonomous devices that can sense or monitor physical or environmental conditions cooperatively. WSNs face many chall...
Raghavendra V. Kulkarni, A. Forster, Ganesh K. Ven...
In battery powered systems such as wireless sensor networks, energy efficiency is one of the most important system design goals. In this paper, energy efficiency is examined fro...
— In wireless communications, shadow fading can cause at least 6 dB power loss for 10% of the time [1]. Early detection of shadow fading plays an important part in facilitating t...