EC359 Software Defined and Cognitive Radio
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EC359 Software Defined and Cognitive Radio
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Cognitive radio: goals, benefits, definitions, architectures, Spectrum-Licensed, unlicensed, shared unlicensed, opportunistic unlicensed, Current spectral usage and issues, Regulations, regulation changes, Spectral awareness, Spectrum adaptation, Dynamic frequency selection, Spectrum Sharing priority allocation, Adaptive bandwidth control Policies, Adaptation and optimization- link adaptation, incremental redundancy, jointly adaptive source and channel coding, Digital signal processing role in SDR, Cross-layer optimization (adaptation), Current cellular cognitive features-Hand-off, Channel allocation, cellular network design, Link adaptation, incremental redundancy, Interference avoidance, detection, and cancellation, Power control, Femto cells and relation to cognitive radio. 2.5G/3G/4G cognitive features, Multi-carrier system adaptation (OFDM(A) adaptive features), Collaboration and cooperation in wireless devices, networks, and systems Interference awareness, Multi-dimensional channel variation and dispersion - relation with adaptive radio, Applications of CR into public safety and other applications of CR ,Vertical hand-off and network interoperability - network awareness, multi-tier networks, Biologically inspired cognitive features (like Bats, Ants, human being, etc)