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Synopsis
A cognitive radio is a transceiver that is aware of its environment, the regulations governing its operation, and its users needs, priorities, and operational privileges. It can take intelligent action to configure itself to perform its mission based on that awareness and is capable of learning and reasoning from past experience.
Cognitive Radio Engineering is both a text and a reference book about cognitive radio architecture and implementation. It is intended for readers who want to design and build working cognitive radios. It provides a practical approach that differs from many existing titles that postulate and analyze or simulate ideal cognitive radios without considering how to build working prototypes. This book will take the reader from conceptual block diagrams through the design and evaluation of illustrative prototypes.
Written by acknowledged experts in the field who have built working cognitive radio systems, this book will be essential reading for communications engineers working in academia or industry."
Synopsis
A cognitive radio is a transceiver which is aware of its environment, its own technical capabilities and limitations, and those of the radios with which it may communicate; is capable of acting on that awareness and past experience to configure itself in a way that optimizes its performance; and is capable of learning from experience. In a real sense, a cognitive radio is an intelligent communications system that designs and redesigns itself in real time.
Cognitive Radio Engineering is both a text and a reference book about cognitive radio architecture and implementation, intended for readers who want to design and build working cognitive radios. It takes the reader from conceptual block diagrams through the design and evaluation of illustrative prototypes. An important goal is to bridge the divide between radio engineers, who often have little experience with the computational resource and timing issues inherent in cognitive radios, and computer engineers who often are unaware of RF issues like dynamic range, intermodulation products, and acquisition time.
Following a brief overview of cognitive radio history and a high-level look at cognitive radio operation, the book presents a detailed study of cognitive engine design and analysis. After treating RF subsystems the book considers computational platforms and computation issues in cognitive radios, followed by system integration, evaluation methods for cognitive radio, and cognitive radio design for networking. The book concludes with coverage of cognitive radio applications in communications.