Today's wireless services have come a long way since the roll out of the conventional voice-centric cellular systems. The demand for wireless access in voice and high rate data multi-media applications has been increasing. New generation wireless communication systems are aimed at accommodating this demand through better resource management and improved transmission technologies.

The interest in increasing Spectrum Access and improving Spectrum Efficiency combined with both the introduction of Software Defined Radios and the realization that machine learning can be applied to radios has created new intriguing possibilities for wireless radio researchers.

This book is aimed to discuss the cognitive radio, software defined radio (SDR), and adaptive radio concepts from several aspects. Cognitive radio and cognitive networks will be investigated from a broad aspect of wireless communication system enhancement while giving special emphasis on better spectrum utilization. Applications of cognitive radio, SDR and cognitive radio architectures, spectrum efficiency and soft spectrum usage, adaptive wireless system design, measurements and awareness of various parameters including interference temperature and geo-location information are some of the important topics that will be covered in this book.

Cognitive Radio, Software Defined Radio, and Adaptive Wireless Systems is intended to be both an introductory technology survey/tutorial for beginners and an advanced mathematical overview intended for technical professionals in the communications industry, technical managers, and researchers in both academia and industry.

Autorentext

Dr. Arslan is currently editing a book on Ultrawideband Communications that will be published by Wiley. Professional Activities:

• Editorial board member: Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal

• Guest editor for the special issue of "Ultrawideband Communications" in WCMC Journal

• Technical program co-chair for: IEEE Wireless and Microwave Conference 2004/2005, UWB communications and networking workshop in conjunction with BroadNets'05

Symposium Chair for: Ultrawideband (UWB) Communications and Networking Symposium, WirelessCOM'05, IEEE VTC'03 conference: Adaptation of Wireless Systems and Related Parameters Estimation, EEE VTC'03 conference: Channel Estimation and Tracking for Wireless Communication Systems, IEEE VTC'03 conference: Interference Cancellation for Wireless Mobile Radio Systems

• Technical program committee member: IEEE WCNC 2003/2004, IEEE VTC'03, IEEE LCN'04/05, IEEE Globecom'05 conferences, Second International Workshop Networking with UWB (NEUWB2 2005), Workshop on Ultra Wide Band for Wireless Internet (UWB4WI 2005), International program committee member: IASTED Int. Conf. Commun. Systems and Applications

Inhalt
Introducing Adaptive, Aware, and Cognitive Radios.- Cognitive Networks.- Cognitive Radio Architecture.- Software Defined Radio Architectures for Cognitive Radios.- Value Creation and Migration in Adaptive Cognitive and Radio Systems.- Codes and Games for Dynamic Spectrum Access.- Efficiency and Coexistence Strategies for Cognitive Radio.- Enabling Cognitive Radio via Sensing, Awareness, and Measurements.- Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Applications.- Location Information Management Systems for Cognitive Wireless Networks.- OFDM for Cognitive Radio: Merits and Challenges.- UWB Cognitive Radio.- Applications of Cognitive Radio.- Cross-Layer Adaptation and Optimization for Cognitive Radio.