A survey on MAC strategies for cognitive radio networks

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-44

  De Domenico, Antonio ^a,b   Calvanese Strinati, Emilio ^a   Di Benedetto, Maria Gabriella ^c  

^a CEA LETI   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognitive radio; Medium Access Control; Spectrum Sensing; Spectrum Sharing

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORK; DESIGN CHALLENGES; DYNAMIC SPECTRUM; DYNAMIC SPECTRUM ALLOCATIONS; DYNAMIC SPECTRUM SHARING; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; MAC LAYER; MAC PROTOCOL; MEDIUM ACCESS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES; SPECTRUM SENSING; SPECTRUM SHARING; WIRELESS SERVICES;

COGNITIVE RADIO; RADIO; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SURVEYS;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 84857501981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2011.111510.00108     Document Type: Article

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