Essentials of Cognitive Radio

Do you need to get quickly up to speed on cognitive radio? This concise, practical guide presents the key concepts and challenges you need to know about, including issues associated with security, regulation, and designing and building cognitive radios. Written in a descriptive style and using minimum mathematics, complex ideas are made easily understandable, providing you with a perfect introduction to the technology and preparing you to face its many future challenges.

Linda E. Doyle is an Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She leads a large research group in the Centre for Telecommunications Value-chain Research (CTVR). CTVR focuses on the design of future telecommunications networks and systems, and Professor Doyle's research focuses on wireless networking, cognitive radio, reconfigurable networks, dynamic spectrum access networks and spectrum management techniques. The research involves both theoretical and experimental aspects. Professor Doyle is also Vice-Chair of the Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN) Society.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
List of abbreviations	p. xiii
A cognitive radio world	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Brief history and definition	p. 1
New spectrum regimes	p. 4
Cognitive radio beyond spectrum management	p. 18
Application domains	p. 22
Conclusions	p. 31
References	p. 32
The essentials - an overview	p. 33
Introduction	p. 33
Setting the scene for understanding cognitive radio	p. 33
Building a deeper understanding	p. 38
The core essentials	p. 41
The other necessities	p. 44
A roadmap for the book	p. 45
References	p. 46
Taking action	p. 47
Introduction	p. 47
Understanding the world in which actions take place	p. 48
A brief tour of communications systems	p. 57
The actions in detail	p. 62
Communicating the transmitter configuration details to the receiver	p. 81
Conclusions	p. 86
References	p. 87
Observing the outside world	p. 89
Introduction	p. 89
The spectrum sensing challenge	p. 92
The basic sensing system	p. 96
Standalone or non-cooperative spectrum sensing	p. 105
Cooperative spectrum sensing	p. 108
Getting information from an external source	p. 116
Back to the wider observations	p. 120
Conclusions	p. 121
References	p. 122
Making decisions	p. 123
Introduction	p. 123
The decision-making process: part 1	p. 123
The decision-making process: part 2	p. 139
Taking regulations into account when making decisions	p. 144
The decision-making process: part 3	p. 146
Conclusions	p. 152
References	p. 154
Security in cognitive radio	p. 155
Introduction	p. 155
The strength and weakness of being able to observe	p. 157
The double-sided coin of collaboration	p. 159
Physically tampering with the cognitive radio	p. 161
The single points of failure	p. 161
Application demands	p. 162
An example of security in action	p. 163
The silver lining	p. 164
Conclusions	p. 165
Cognitive radio platforms	p. 167
Introduction	p. 167
A complete cognitive radio system	p. 167
Cognitive radio platforms: digital hardware	p. 170
Cognitive radio platforms: the analogue part	p. 182
Cognitive radio platforms: the other bits	p. 193
Conclusions	p. 193
References	p. 194
Cognitive radio regulation and standardisation	p. 195
Introduction	p. 195
Regulatory issues and new spectrum management regimes	p. 195
Cognitive radio applications and regulations	p. 213
Standards and international activity	p. 214
Conclusion	p. 220
References	p. 221
Conclusions	p. 223
Introduction	p. 223
A brief summing up	p. 223
The future	p. 227
Developments in the TV white spaces in the USA	p. 229
Index	p. 233
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