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OBJECTIVES:
The student should be made:
     To understand the evolving software defined radio and cognitive radio techniques and
       their essential functionalities
     To study the basic architecture and standard for cognitive radio
     To understand the physical, MAC and Network layer design of cognitive radio
     To expose the student to evolving applications and advanced features of cognitive radio
UNIT I        INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIO AND COGNITIVE
             RADIO                                                                                 9
Evolution of Software Defined Radio and Cognitive radio: goals, benefits, definitions, architectures,
relations with other radios, issues, enabling technologies, radio frequency spectrum and
regulations.
UNIT II      COGNITIVE RADIO ARCHITECTURE                                                 9
Cognition cycle – orient, plan, decide and act phases, Organization, SDR as a platform for
Cognitive Radio – Hardware and Software Architectures, Overview of IEEE 802.22 standard for
broadband wireless access in TV bands.
UNIT III       SPECTRUM SENSING AND DYNAMIC SPECTRUM ACCESS                                     9
Introduction – Primary user detection techniques – energy detection, feature detection, matched
filtering, cooperative detection and other approaches, Fundamental Tradeoffs in spectrum sensing,
Spectrum Sharing Models of Dynamic Spectrum Access - Unlicensed and Licensed Spectrum
Sharing, Fundamental Limits of Cognitive Radio.
UNIT IV       MAC AND NETWORK LAYER DESIGN FOR COGNITIVE RADIO                         9
MAC for cognitive radios – Polling, ALOHA, slotted ALOHA, CSMA, CSMA / CA, Network layer
design – routing in cognitive radios, flow control and error control techniques.
UNIT V       ADVANCED TOPICS IN COGNITIVE RADIO                                                  9
Overview of security issues in cognitive radios, auction based spectrum markets in cognitive radio
networks, public safety and cognitive radio, cognitive radio for Internet of Things.
                                                                               TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES:
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
  Gain knowledge on the design principles on software defined radio and cognitive radio
  Develop the ability to design and implement algorithms for cognitive radio spectrum sensing
     and dynamic spectrum access
  Build experiments and projects with real time wireless applications
  Apply the knowledge of advanced features of cognitive radio for real world applications
TEXT BOOKS:
 1. Alexander M. Wyglinski, Maziar Nekovee, Thomas Hou, ―Cognitive Radio Communications
    and Networks‖, Academic Press, Elsevier, 2010. (Unit I to IV)
 2. Huseyin Arslan (Ed.), ―Cognitive Radio, Software Defined Radio, and Adaptive Wireless
    Systems, Springer, 2007. (Unit V)
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