Essentials of Cognitive Radio

Description

Do you need to get quickly up to speed on cognitive radio? This concise, practical guide presents the key concepts and challenges you need to know about, including issues associated with security, regulation, and designing and building cognitive radios. Written in a descriptive style and using minimum mathematics, complex ideas are made easily understandable, providing you with a perfect introduction to the technology and preparing you to face its many future challenges.

Linda E. Doyle is an Associate Professor at Trinity College, Dublin. She leads a large research group in the Centre for Telecommunications Value-chain Research (CTVR). CTVR focuses on the design of future telecommunications networks and systems and Prof. Doyle's research focuses on wireless networking cognitive radio, reconfigurable networks, dynamic spectrum access networks and spectrum management techniques. The research involves both theoretical and experimental aspects.

'Professor Doyle's book is an enjoyable read. This book could be used as part of graduate studies on software radios and trends in radio design. ... It is rare to find the balance of practical depth and high-level vision that comes together in this book.' IEEE Microwave Magazine 'The overall description is very intuitive ... It requires no particular knowledge (or mathematical skills) to understand the notions developed in the book. This makes the book very easy to understand, and, thus, accessible to a large public. ... As a practical guide on cognitive radio, this book completely fulfills its objective and is very useful for quickly entering into the domain.' Radio Science Bulletin