Spectrum decision is the ability of a cognitive radio (CR) to select the best available
spectrum band to satisfy secondary users'(SUs') quality of service (QoS) requirements …

Building on the ubiquity of electric power infrastructure, power line communications (PLC)
has been successfully used in diverse application scenarios, including the smart grid and in …

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) effectively mitigates intersymbol
interference (ISI) caused by the delay spread of wireless channels. Therefore, it has been …

This tutorial paper addresses the physical layer security concerns and resiliency of
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communications; the de facto air …

Integral and crucial to performance of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), and specifically
industrial wireless sensor network (IWSN) is stable, robust, reliable, and ubiquitous …

Cognitive radio (CR) technology is a promising way to improve the bandwidth efficiency of
underutilized radio spectra. For practical CR systems with limited a priori knowledge of the …

Despite that underwater acoustic channels are well known to contain various interferences,
research on interference mitigation in underwater acoustic communications has been very …

We investigate the problem of channel estimation in an orthogonal frequency-division
multiplexing (OFDM) system plagued by unknown narrowband interference (NBI). Such …

Cognitive radio employs spectrum sensing to facilitate coexistence of different
communication systems over a same frequency band. A peculiar feature of this technology is …

This paper presents a novel approach to tightly estimate the ergodic Shannon and
constrained capacities of an additive Bernoulli-Gaussian (BG) impulsive noise channel in …