: To extend the functional lifetime of battery-operated Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), stringent sleep scheduling strategies with communication duty cycles running at sub-1% rang...
—We venture beyond the “listen-before-talk” strategy that is common in many traditional cognitive radio access schemes. We exploit the bi-directional nature of most primary c...
— Spectrum handoff occurs when the primary users appear in the licensed band occupied by the secondary users. Spectrum handoff procedures aim to help the secondary users to vacat...
—We have currently reached a phase where big shifts in the network traffic might impose to rethink the design of current architectures, and where new technologies, being pushed ...
—In this paper we investigate a cooperative mobile network with respect to error performance. Power allocation is applied between source and relay. The relay cooperates after hav...