0 0 0 Abstract-The information theoretic capacity of frequency-hop spread-spectrum multiple-access communication is considered. In order to account for independent encoding and decoding and private (to the sender and receiver) hopping patterns an interference channel model is adopted with K sender-receiver pairs with the ith receiver only interested in the message transmitted by the ith sender....

In this paper, the performance of multichannel transmission in cognitive radio is studied. Both constraints and interference limitations are considered. The activities of the primary users (PU)s are initially detected by cognitive users (CU)s who perform sensing process over multiple channels. They transmit in a single channel at variable power and rates depending on the channel sensing decisio...

Two-tier overlay networks that consist of a conventional macrocell network and femtocell hotspots offer an economical solution for high capacity and extended coverage. However, wireless interference across tiers significantly degrades network performance by restricting spectrum reuse. In this paper, we explore schemes to mitigate cross-tier interference using beamforming in overlay networks. In...

In order to improve the efficiency of spectrum resource usage and the capacity of wireless networks, cooperative relay techniques which utilize the vacant spectrum of primary users for secondary users’ data transmission have been applied in cognitive radio networks. Considering the dynamic time-varying vacant spectrum resources and achievable rate on different channels at relay nodes (RN), the ...

In this paper, we determine the watermark domain that maximizes data hiding capacity. We focus on the situation in which the watermarked signal undergoes lossy compression involving quantization in a specified compression domain. A novel linear model for the process of quantization is proposed which leads to analytical results estimating the data hiding capacity for various watermarking domains...

The growing demand in mobile Internet access calls for high capacity and energy efficient cellular access with better cell coverage. The in-band relaying solution, proposed in LTE-Advanced, improves coverage without requiring additional spectrum for backhauling, making its deployment more economical and practical. However, in-band relay without careful management incurs low spectrum utilization...

Abstract—Cooperative spectrum sensing is a crucial challenge in cognitive radio networks. Cooperative sensing can increase the reliability of spectrum hole detection, optimize sensing time and reduce delay in cooperative networks. In this paper, an efficient central capacity optimization algorithm is proposed to minimize cooperative sensing time in a homogenous sensor network using OR decision ...

Femtocell is envisioned as a highly promising solution to tackle the communications in the indoor environments, which has been a very challenging problem for mobile network operators. Currently, the spectrum allocated to femtocells is from the same licensed spectrum of macrocells, and the same mobile network operator. In this case, the capacity of femtocell networks may be largely limited due t...

Cognitive radio (CR) has emerged as a promising technology to improve spectrum utilization. Capacity analysis is very useful in investigating the ultimate performance limits for wireless networks. Meanwhile, with increasing potential future applications for the CR systems, it is necessary to explore the limitations on their capacity in a dynamic spectrum access environment. However, due to spec...