Cognitive Radio and its Application for Next Generation Cellular and Wireless Networks

Dr. Hrishikesh Venkataraman is a senior researcher and Enterprise Ireland (EI) Principal Investigator with Performance Engineering Laboratory at the Irish national research center - The RINCE Institute, in Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland. He obtained his Ph.D. from Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, in 2007 for his research on wireless cellular networks. He obtained his master's degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India, in 2004 and did his master's thesis from Vodafone Chair for Mobile Communications, Technical University Dresden, Germany, from 2003 to 2004 under the Indo-German DAAD Fellowship. His research interests include mobile multimedia, wireless communications and energy in wireless. Dr. Venkataraman has published more than 40 papers in journals, international conferences and book chapters and has won a best paper award in World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science in University of Berkeley, USA, in October 2009. Currently, Dr. Venkataraman is an Executive Editor of European Transactions on Telecommunications (ETT) and is a founding member of UKRI chapter of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. Dr. Muntean has established a strong track record in the area of performance-aware data communications in heterogeneous network environments. Dr. Muntean is Director of the Network Innovations Centre of the RINCE Research Institute, co-Director of the Dublin City University (DCU) Performance Engineering Laboratory, a top Irish research laboratory which has a state-of-the-art facility in the DCU Engineering building, and Lecturer with the School of Electronic Engineering at DCU, Ireland. Dr. Muntean has successfully supervised five Ph.D. and four master's research students and is currently leading a team of 15 postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers. Dr. Muntean has been principal investigator or collaborator on many Enterprise Ireland, Science Foundation Ireland and Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology-funded projects. In addition, he has been leading or collaborating on projects funded or co-funded by multi-national and Irish companies such as IBM, Disney Research, Samsung, Microsoft, Everseen and Citadel 100. Dr. Muntean has authored one book and edited three others, has published eight book chapters, and has published over 30 journal and 150 conference papers in top international venues. Dr. Muntean has been awarded the 2010 Scott Helt Memorial Award for the Best Paper Published in the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting and five best paper awards at different conferences. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting.

• Part I: Cognitive Radio and Radio Spectrum.- Introduction to Cognitive Radio.- Spectrum Usage Models for the Analysis, Design and Simulation of Cognitive Radio Networks.- Bandwidth Efficient Co-operative Spectrum Sensing.- Emergency Networking in Licensed Spectrum using Cognitive Radios: Challenges and Insights.- Signature Detection for Context Awareness in Cognitive Radio Networks.- Generalized Eigen-value Based Spectrum Sensing.- Part II: Cognitive Radio for Wireless and Cellular Networks.- From Self Organizing to Cognitive Networks: How Can the Cellular Operator Make Use of the Cognitive Paradigm?.- Signal Separation for Cognitive Wireless Communications.- Towards Cognitive Networking: Automatic Wireless Network Recognition Based on MAC Feature Detection.- Spectrum Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks using Evolutionary Algorithms.- Radio Resource Allocation for Cognitive Radio-based Ad Hoc Wireless Networks.- Next Generation Cognitive Cellular Networks, LTE, WiMAX and Wireless Broadband Access.- Cognitive Capabilities for Femtocell Networks: Cognitive Femtocells.- Interference Modeling, Shaping and Avoidance in Cognitive Wireless Networks.- System Design and FPGA Implementation for a Cognitive Radio Wireless Device.