The presence of physical obstacles and radio interference results in the so called “shadow regions” in wireless networks. When a mobile station roams into a shadow region, it ...
Dongyan Chen, Sachin Garg, Chandra M. R. Kintala, ...
Abstract—We explore the performance tradeoff between opportunistic and regulated access inherent in the design of multiuser cognitive radio networks. We consider a cognitive radi...
—Opportunistic spectrum access creates the opening of under-utilized portions of the licensed spectrum for reuse, provided that the transmissions of secondary radios do not cause...
Alberto Rabbachin, Tony Q. S. Quek, Hyundong Shin,...
Muni WiFi deployments have been widely covered by the media during the last two years. However, the economical feasibility and performance of such deployments as an alternative fo...
Spectrum is a critical yet scarce resource and it has been shown that dynamic spectrum access can significantly improve spectrum utilization. To achieve this, it is important to ...