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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
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Analysis of Non-Coherent Detectors for Opportunistic Spectrum Access in Broadband Wireless Networks
DownloadSpring 2016
The exponential growth in the number of wireless broadband service users demands an enormous increase in the available communication bandwidth, which inherently translates into an increased demand for the radio frequency spectrum. Opportunistically accessing the unused portions of the spectrum...
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Fall 2014
Cognitive radio has been considered as a promising way to deal with the overcrowded wireless spectrum. In cognitive radio, when licensed users (primary users) do not use their licensed spectrum, they may lease the spectrum to unlicensed users (secondary user). In a cognitive radio network, a...