In this paper, we investigate how Cognitive Radio as a means of communication can be utilized to serve a smart grid deployment end to end, from a home area network to power generation. We show how Cognitive Radio can be mapped to integrate the possible different communication networks within a smart grid large scale deployment. In addition, various applications in smart grid are defined and dis...

One of the keywords that describe next-generation wireless communications is “seamless.” As part of the e-Japan Plan promoted by the Japanese Government, the Multimedia Integrated Network by Radio Access Innovation project has as its goal the development of new technologies to enable seamless integration of various wireless access systems for practical use by 2005. This article describes a hete...

Software Defined Radio (SDR) and Cognitive Radio (CR) are the key enabling technologies to overcome the spectrum scarcity problem a bit, by supporting dynamic spectrum access in which either a network or a wireless node reconfigures its transmission or reception parameters to communicate efficiently, avoiding interference with licensed or unlicensed users. CR senses the environment and enables ...

Recently, the mobile devices are equipped with various wireless interfaces in heterogeneous environments which combine a large number of radio access technologies. The evolution of these technologies will allow users to benefit simultaneously from these radio access technologies. So that the most important challenge is how to choose a most suitable network access for mobile user which can be us...

One of the two keywords for the next generation wireless communications is seamless. Being involved in the essential e-Japan Plan promoted by the Japanese Government, MIRAI (Multimedia Integrated network by Radio Access Innovation) project is responsible for the research and development on the seamless integration of various wireless access systems for the practical use by the year 2005. A hete...

Cognitive Radio (CR) is an intelligent radio that can dynamically access the radio spectrum. Secondary users in Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) can access the licensed spectrum without causing harmful interference to primary users. The performance of cognitive radio networking functionalities depends on the properties of the spectrum band in use. This necessitates a crosslayer design in the entir...

With the widespread deployment and popular usage of wireless networks, various wireless access network technologies are being developed. Taking advantages of these access network technologies will be able to offer a lot of possibilities for increasing bandwidth, accessing the Internet, and expanding the service range. For supporting interoperability between a variety of access network technolog...

Wireless mesh network is an advanced form of wireless network. A wireless mesh network provides a better solution to problems that often arise in cellular and WLAN. Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are receiving increasing demand as an effective solution to deploy ISP’s wireless last mile access, such as wireless enterprise backbone networks and other applications. Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) pr...

The combination of Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) and cloud-based radio access network (C-RAN) is a candidate approach for the next generation of mobile networks. In this paper, the novel concept of virtual radio resources, which completes the virtual RAN paradigm, is proposed. The key idea is to aggregate (and manage) all the physical radio resources, to create virtual wireless links, a...

This paper investigates the performance of a multihop radio access network. In our testbed, nodes communicate to one access point using IEEE 802.11b and AODV routing. We measure the average packet delay and delivery ratio, if the node movement is emulated employing the random waypoint and random direction model, respectively. We find that random waypoint mobility yields up to 100% better result...