Cognitive Communication and Cooperative HetNet Coexistence

1. Recent Advances on Wideband Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio
Andrea Mariani, Andrea Giorgetti, Marco Chiani

2. Channel Usage Patterns and Their Impact on the Effectiveness of Machine Learning for Dynamic Channel Selection
Irene Macaluso, Hamed Ahmadi, Luiz A. DaSilva, Linda Doyle

3. Analysis and Optimization of Energy Detection for Non-Flat Spectral Characteristics
Sener Dikmese, Tero Ihalainen, Markku Renfors

4. Spectrum Sensing Algorithms for Cognitive TV White-Spaces Systems
Daniel Riviello, Sergio Benco, Floriana Loredana Crespi, Andrea Ghittino, Roberto Garello, Alberto Perotti

5. New Blind Free-Band Detectors Exploiting Cyclic Autocorrelation Function Sparsity
Ziad Khalaf, Jacques Palicot

6. Intersystem Coexistence and Cooperation Through Control Channels
Andreas Georgakopoulos, Dimitrios Karvounas, Vera Stavroulaki, Kostas Tsagkaris, Panagiotis Demestichas

7. Cooperative Spectrum Sensing with Censoring of Cognitive Radios in Fading Channel Under Majority Logic Fusion
Srinivas Nallagonda, Sanjay Dhar Roy, Sumit Kundu, Gianluigi Ferrari, Riccardo Raheli

8. Medium Access Control in Cognitive Impulse Radio UWB Networks
Luca De Nardis, Guido Carlo Ferrante, Maria-Gabriella Benedetto

9. Integration of Heterogeneous Spectrum Sensing Devices Towards Accurate REM Construction
Liljana Gavrilovska, Vladimir Atanasovski, Valentin Rakovic, Daniel Denkovski

10. Cellular Coverage Optimization: A Radio Environment Map for Minimization of Drive Tests
Ana Galindo-Serrano, Berna Sayrac, Sana Ben Jemaa, Janne Riihijärvi, Petri Mähönen

11. Use of Learning, Game Theory and Optimization as Biomimetic Approaches for Self-Organization in Heterogeneous Networks
Ali Imran, Lorenza Giupponi

12. Cooperation and Competition for Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks: The Practical Perspective
Hanna Bogucka, Marcin Parzy

13. Cooperative Detection of PUE Attacks in CRNs
Olga León, Juan Hernández-Serrano, Miguel Soriano

14. Cognition as a Tool for Green Next Generation Networks
Fabrizio Granelli, Oliver Holland, Nelson L. S. Fonseca

15. Testbeds and Implementation Issues
K. Katzis, A. Perotti, L. De Nardis

Keywords: Engineering, Communications Engineering, Networks, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)