Towards energy-efficient cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks: an overview

Telecommunication Systems

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 77-91

  Althunibat, Saud ^a   Di Renzo, Marco ^b   Granelli, Fabrizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cognitive radio networks; Cooperative spectrum sensing; Energy efficiency; Wireless communications

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; RADIO; RADIO SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CO-OPERATIVE SPECTRUM SENSING; COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORK; COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORKS (CRNS); COGNITIVE RADIO TECHNOLOGIES; ENERGY EFFICIENT; HIGH ENERGY CONSUMPTION; SPECTRUM SENSING; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

COGNITIVE RADIO;

EID: 84938483580     PISSN: 10184864     EISSN: 15729451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11235-014-9887-2     Document Type: Article

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