On WiFi offloading in heterogeneous networks: Various incentives and trade-off strategies

Y He, M Chen, B Ge, M Guizani - … Communications Surveys & …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the rapid development of wireless access technologies and smart terminals, mobile
data traffic is continuously increasing, which is expected to lead to an explosive growth of …

Defense against malicious users in cooperative spectrum sensing using genetic algorithm

N Gul, IM Qureshi, A Elahi… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In cognitive radio network (CRN), secondary users (SUs) try to sense and utilize the vacant
spectrum of the legitimate primary user (PU) in an efficient manner. The process of …

History based forward and feedback mechanism in cooperative spectrum sensing including malicious users in cognitive radio network

N Gul, IM Qureshi, A Omar, A Elahi, S Khan - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
In cognitive radio communication, spectrum sensing plays a vital role in sensing the
existence of the primary user (PU). The sensing performance is badly affected by fading and …

Non-cooperative spectrum sensing in context of primary user detection: A review

A Nadeem, M Khan, K Han - IETE Technical Review, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Spectrum sensing (SS) is one of the key tasks in cognitive radio networks that is performed
to get awareness about the usage of electromagnetic spectrum. It enables the secondary …

Secured soft combination schemes against malicious-users in cooperative spectrum sensing

N Gul, IM Qureshi, A Naveed, A Elahi… - Wireless Personal …, 2019 - Springer
A critical problem with Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Network is the
presence of Malicious Users (MUs) reporting false information to the Fusion Centre (FC) …

Robust Spectrum Sensing via Double‐Sided Neighbor Distance Based on Genetic Algorithm in Cognitive Radio Networks

N Gul, MS Khan, J Kim, SM Kim - Mobile Information Systems, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In cognitive radio networks (CRNs), secondary users (SUs) can access vacant spectrum
licensed to a primary user (PU). Therefore, accurate and timely spectrum sensing is vital for …

Matched channel allocation for advanced metering infrastructure based on cognitive mobile virtual network operator

E Inga, R Hincapie - IEEE Latin America Transactions, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper analyses a matched channel allocation algorithm for Advanced Metering
Infrastructure (AMI) for Smart Grid (SG) with connectivity provided by a Cognitive Mobile …

Fuzzy-based assignment algorithm for channel sensing task in cognitive radio networks

M Nabil, M ElNainay - 2016 IEEE Symposium on Computers …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In cognitive radio networks, cognitive users are allowed to use the licensed portions of
spectrum, as long as no harmful interference affects the primary (licensed) users. Towards …

Genetic algorithm-based crowdsensing for cognitive radio networks

OS Mossad, M ElNainay - 2018 14th International Conference …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the main challenges in cognitive radios is spectrum sensing. Cooperative spectrum
sensing scheme among mobile users can be used to determine the usage profile of wide …

Perspectives on Cognitive Radio Networks

BTJ Maharaj, BS Awoyemi, BTJ Maharaj… - … in Cognitive Radio …, 2022 - Springer
This chapter describes the foundational and modern architectural descriptions, depictions
and designs of the cognitive radio networks. The chapter establishes that, in contrast to …