Abstract Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is envisaged to play an important role in the
safety of drivers and passengers when moving on the roads. However, VANET still faces …

Cognitive Radio Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (CR-VANETs) utilize CR technology to increase
frequency bandwidth for vehicular communications. Cooperative Spectrum Sensing (CSS) …

Spectrum sensing is one of the fundamental functionality performed by a cognitive radio to
identify vacant radio spectrum for dynamic spectrum access (DSA). However, there are …

Exploiting cognitive radio (CR) technology in intelligent transportations systems have
recently attracted a significant attention from the research communities. In particular, we …

Due to the fact that security and energy efficiency are investigated separately in the
conventional Primary User Emulation Attack (PUEA) countermeasure strategy in …

(School of Electronics and Information, Nantong University, Nantong 226019, China)
Abstract: Different fading propagation channels in cognitive vehicular network affect the …

With the overwhelming demand for wireless devices, cognitive radios (CRs) have been
envisioned to be applied in the vehicular communications in the near future. In the moving …

Distributed cooperative spectrum sensing is an alternative sensing mechanism in which all
the secondary users (SU) have individual decisions regarding spectrum availability. For …

The highly anticipated era of vehicular communication networks which is also an integral
aspect of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) will undeniably improve transport safety …

In this thesis, the performance of decision-based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing (CSS)
using random medium access sequential reporting assuming an imperfect reporting channel …