Multiband spectrum access: Great promises for future cognitive radio networks

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 282-306

  Hattab, Ghaith ^a   Ibnkahla, Mohamed ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cooperative communications; design tradeoffs; multiband cognitive radio; performance metrics; spectrum sensing

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

COGNITIVE NETWORK; COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORK; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DESIGN TRADEOFF; MULTI-BAND SPECTRUM; MULTIBAND; PERFORMANCE METRICS; SPECTRUM SENSING;

COGNITIVE RADIO;

EID: 84897639395     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2014.2303977     Document Type: Article

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