In November 2008, the FCC ruled that the digital TV whitespaces be used for unlicensed access. This is an exciting development because DTV whitespaces are in the low frequency ran...
Supratim Deb, Vikram Srinivasan, Ritesh Maheshwari
A number of studies have shown the abundance of unused spectrum in the TV bands. This is in stark contrast to the overcrowding of wireless devices in the ISM bands. A recent trend...
Yuan Yuan, Paramvir Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Thomas ...
—The deployment of cognitive radio networks enables efficient spectrum sharing and opportunistic spectrum access. It also presents new challenges to the classical problem of int...
Opportunistic user access scheduling enhances the capacity of wireless networks by exploiting the multi user diversity. When frame aggregation is used, opportunistic schemes are no...
—We propose a dynamic spectrum access scheme where secondary users recommend “good” channels to each other and access accordingly. We formulate the problem as an average rewa...