IET Communications

The cognitive radio (CR) is known as a radio that can reconfigure its transceiver parameters based on the environmental awareness. The opportunistic radio (OR) is considered in this work, with a narrower definition where the awareness is limited to the spectrum knowledge. The decision making framework is employed as a crucial entity to control the behaviour of the OR. The main purpose is to enable... View full abstract»

Monitoring and measuring various metrics of high-speed networks produces a vast amount of information over a long period of time making the storage of the metrics a serious issue. Previous work has suggested stream aware compression algorithms, among others, that is, methodologies that try to organise the network packets in a compact way in order to occupy less storage. However, these methods do n... View full abstract»

A multi-hop mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is generally configured as a peer-to-peer network with no centralised hubs or controllers that coordinate channel resources. Nodes in a MANET usually equip one single transceiver for data transmissions. However, the single transceiver architecture will cause a difficulty of being implemented in multichannel environment if the network transmission ca... View full abstract»

An analysis for the Shannon channel capacity of digital receivers operating over η-μ fading channels is presented under four adaptive policies: constant power with optimal rate adaptation, optimal power and rate adaptation, channel inversion with fixed rate and truncated channel inversion with fixed rate. In this context, useful formulae for the average channel capacity for maximal... View full abstract»

Network tomography has been widely used recently to obtain the network internal characteristics by end-to-end measurement. In this study, the authors consider the problem of estimating link loss rates using network tomography. The existing work based on maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) uses iterative approximation to make the inference, which requires a long execution time for large scale networ... View full abstract»

The rapid growth of wireless industry and continuous emergence of new applications increase the demand for wireless spectrum. However, currently the spectrum assigned to different organisations is not utilised efficiently. Particularly, when an infrastructure of a service provider is overloaded and cannot accommodate more users because of the channel scarcity, the infrastructures of other service ... View full abstract»

The multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technique can be used to improve the performance of ad hoc networks. Various medium access control (MAC) protocols with multiple contention slots have been proposed to exploit spatial multiplexing for increasing the transport throughput of MIMO ad hoc networks. However, the existence of multiple request-to-send/clear-to-send (RTS/CTS) content... View full abstract»

The authors explore the potential application of cognitive interrogator network (COIN) in remote monitoring of mobile subjects in domestic environments, where the ultra-wideband radio frequency identification (UWB-RFID) technique is considered for accurate target localisation. The authors first present the COIN architecture in which the central base station (BS) continuously and intelligently cust... View full abstract»

Motivated by the low-complexity to implement a dual-branch selection combining system, which is a practical method to improve the performance of a communication system subject to fading, this work studies important performance measures for that system over independent but non-identically distributed Nakagami-q fading channels. In particular, a novel closed-form expression is derived for the... View full abstract»

A performance analysis for cooperative diversity systems with best relay selection over Rayleigh fading channels is presented. The authors obtain analytical expressions for the probability density function (PDF), cumulative density function (CDF) and the moment generating function (MGF) of end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the system under study for independent and non-identically distribu... View full abstract»

In this study, the performance of two asynchronous multi-access direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) and multicarrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) systems with binary and polyphase long sequences is compared. An indoor multipath powerline channel model generated from random impedance networks is used. The powerline background, narrowband and impulsive noise are modell... View full abstract»