Ramzi Saifan

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—Two objectives of sensing in cognitive radio (CR) are to detect the primary user (PU) accurately and quickly, which are contradicting objectives. Therefore, many papers try to optimize this tradeoff and find the minimum sensing time which protects the PU. The trends are classified in enhancing false alarm probability (í µí± í µí±) and detection(More)
—The cognitive radio (CR) nodes in a cognitive radio network (CRN) do not have license to use specific spectrum band. Instead, they use the spectrum bands of the licensed primary users (PU) without interfering with the PU. When the PU becomes active, interfering CRs should leave to another available spectrum band within the PU's tolerable interference delay(More)
—We consider spectrum sensing strategies used to discover available spectrum in Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs), using both non-cooperative sensing and cooperative sensing approaches. After introducing the background to sensing techniques , this position paper focuses on strategies and algorithms for conducting sensing such that the sensing time and energy(More)
—Routing in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) necessitates a cross-layering approach. However, according to [1], CRN routing protocols proposed in literature are partially cross-layer, because the information flow is only from physical layer to network layer, e.g., about channels availabilities. In this work, we introduce a cross-layer routing protocol(More)
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