This paper addresses the problem of joint multicast routing, channel selection, scheduling,
and call admission control in multi-cell multi-channel multi-radio cognitive radio wireless …

This paper investigates the problem of designing an efficient spectrum-allocation
mechanism in heterogeneous multicell coordinated cognitive radio networks (CRNs) under …

Several new attacks have been identified in CRNs such as primary user emulation, dynamic
spectrum access (DSA), and jamming attacks. Such types of attacks can severely impact …

Software defined networking (SDN) provides a novel network resource management
framework that overcomes several challenges related to network resources management …

Several wireless technologies have recently emerged to enable efficient and scalable
Internet-of-Things (IoT) networking. Cognitive radio (CR) technology, enabled by software …

The 5G technology is a revolutionary technology, which will offer an “unlimited wireless
world interconnection”(Badoi et al. in Wirel Pers Commun 57 (3): 441–464 2011. doi …

Traditional communication networks consist of large sets of vendor-specific manually
configurable devices which are hardwired with specific control logic or algorithms. The …

In this paper, we investigate the problem of securing time-critical communications in a
hardware constrained cognitive radio IoT (CRIoT) networks under reactive jamming attacks …

The emerging network virtualization technique is considered as a promising technology that
enables the deployment of multiple virtual networks over a single physical network. These …

Cognitive radio (CR) is a popular wireless technology for efficient utilization of spectrum. CR
network senses the unused frequency bands of the primary users (PUs) and assign them to …