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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
- 2Cognitive radio
- 1Cell range expansion (CRE)
- 1Cognitive cellular networks
- 1Error probability
- 1Heterogeneous networks (HetNets)
- 1Interference analysis
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Fall 2013
In underlay Cognitive Radio (CR) systems, secondary users may transmit while primary transmissions take place. However, the interference aggregates on the primary system, and performance degradation will occur. Thus, quantifying and modeling of the aggregate interference is important in...
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Spring 2016
The unprecedented escalation in the data traffic demand due to rapid proliferation of smart phones and tablets cannot be fulfilled with the advancement in radio link technologies only as the radio link efficiency is fast approaching its limit. This problem motivates new paradigms of network...