"Spectrum Selection, Sensing, and Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks" introduces the readers to a comprehensive idea about the evolution and functionality of Cognitive Radio from a network perspective. The book covers an efficient modeling technique of spectrum occupancy patterns of primary users in licensed bands, substantiating the results based on real-time experiments performed in Boston, MA, USA. The next chapter introduces a new idea for cognitive radio termed as "Spectrum Selection," a concept of preferable selection of spectrum for further spectrum sensing. A separate chapter on...

This book gives readers an in-depth analysis of the fundamentals behind designing on-demand medium access control (MAC) protocols for multihop wireless networks, esp. with nodes having multiple antenna technologies. This is the first attempt towards designing and analyzing on-demand, also known as contention-based, MAC protocols for multiple beam smart antennas (MBSA). The book begins with a general introduction of the state-of-art problems and solutions that then forms the basis of this book. The book then introduces mathematical models to analyze MBSA and derive basic MAC fundamentals. The...