Abstract—Cognitive radio (CR) technology enables the opportunistic use of the vacant licensed frequency bands, thereby improving the spectrum utilization. However, the CR operati...
— Recent studies indicate the presence of a significant amount of idle licensed spectrum, in different time periods and geographic locations. Prompted by the latest regulatory ch...
George Alyfantis, Giannis F. Marias, Stathes Hadji...
—In order to evaluate the performance of new mobile network technologies, system level simulations are crucial. They aim at determining whether, and at which level predicted link...
In recent years, it has been reported that several existing networks including the Internet have scale-free structure. In this paper, through a simple numerical analysis, we inves...
Abstract—Due to the emergence of Cognitive Radio, a special type of heterogeneous networks attracts increasing interest recently, in which a secondary network composed of cogniti...