Cognitive Communication and Cooperative HetNet Coexistence

Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto is Full Professor of Telecommunications at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Since 2000, she has been active in fostering the development of ultra-wide-band (UWB) radio communications in Europe and has participated in several pioneering EU projects on UWB communications. Her main research focus in the past decade has been on medium access control and management in wireless networks, as well as energy-efficient routing and location-based optimization of medium access control and routing functions.Faouzi Bader is Senior Research Associate at the École Supérieure d'Électricité (SUPELEC) in Rennes, France. His research activities mainly focus on advanced multicarrier waveforms for future communication systems, professional mobile radio/public protection and disaster relief and beyond, cross-layer system design, cognitive radio resource management and spectrum sharing, and system coexistence.

• Recent Advances on Wideband Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio.- Complexity of Spectrum Activity and its effect on Opportunistic Access.- Analysis and Optimization of Energy Detection for Non-Flat Spectral Characteristics.- Spectrum Sensing Algorithms for Cognitive White-Space Systems.- New Blind Free Bands Detectors Exploiting Cyclic Autocorrelation Function Sparsity.- Intersystem Coexistence and Cooperation Through Cognitive Control Channels.- Cooperative Spectrum Sensing with Censoring of Cognitive Radios in Rayleigh Fading Under Majority Logic Fusion.- Medium Access Control in Cognitive Impulse Radio UWB networks.- Integration of Heterogeneous Spectrum Sensing Devices Towards Accurate REM Construction.- Cellular Coverage Optimization: A Radio Environment Map for Minimization of Drive Tests.- Use of Learning, Game Theory and Optimization as Biomimetic Approaches for Self-Organization in Macro-Femtocell Coexistence .- Detection of Primary user Emulation (PUE) Attacks Based on Cooperative Localization.- Cognition as a tool for Green Next generation Networks.- Testbeds and Implementation Issues.

From the book reviews: "Fifteen carefully selected interrelated papers are knit together to provide a holistic solution to the issue, covering security aspects as well. ... The book would be highly beneficial as a reference for research institutions and individuals working with cognitive radio communication networks or allied areas." (C. K. Raju, Computing Reviews, July, 2014)