Sustainable Internet of Things Empowered by Cognitive Radio Sensor Network
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2019) | Viewed by 3282
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wireless sensor and actuator networks; body area networks; internet of things
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Interests: wireless sensor networks; cognitive radio networks; physical layer security; resource allocation in wireless networks; communication theory; digital signal processing
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Interests: vehicular communications; dependable systems; real-time communications; fault tolerance; intelligent transportation systems; distributed embedded systems
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Interests: personal communications; 5G; cognitive radio; MIMO systems; mobility; stochastic modeling; traffic modeling; intrusion/anomaly detection in networks; routing in reconfigurable networks and optimum receiver design
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Interests: wireless sensor network; IoT; energy harvesting; information security; cognitive radio adhoc network
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Today, the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) requires extremely reliable communications to support real-time/data-oriented applications such as smart healthcare, environmental monitoring and intelligent transportation systems (ITS). This requirement is motivating researchers in both academia and industry to focus on 5th generation (5G) mobile communication, which targets the time horizon beyond 2020.
In most IoT applications, several sensors and actuators need to communicate in an ad hoc manner to address the objectives of the application. However, apart from advancements in millimeter-wave and cell densification, enormous number of sensors still operate on frequency bands below 6 GHz where the national regulation authorities (NRAs) are currently running out of options. Therefore, cognitive radio (CR) is a promising technology that could play a significant role in IoT applications, as the use of the limited available spectrum by an enormous number of sensors has resulted in massive signal interference. Consequently, wireless sensors as building blocks of IoT could form cognitive radio sensor networks (CRSNs) as a new communication paradigm to mitigate the spectrum scarcity issue. However, besides the traditional limitations of wireless sensor networks, such as limited power and computational capabilities, cognitive functionalities such as spectrum sensing and sharing impose extra challenges in the sustainable operation of CRSN.
This Special Issue aims to bring together scholars to discuss and present their latest research and findings on all the aspects of CRSN.
Topics of primary interest include but are not limited to:
- Power management in CRSN
- Energy harvesting in CRSN
- Security analysis in CRSN
- Medium access control protocols for CRSN
- Routing protocols for CRSN
- Cross-layer communication protocols for CRSN
- Cooperative and bio-inspired algorithms for CRSN
- Machine learning and artificial intelligent in CRSN
- Architectures and deployments of CRSN
- Energy efficient spectrum sensing for CRSN
- Standards for CRSN
Dr. Mohammad Hossein Anisi
Prof. Mort Naraghi-Pour
Dr. Joaquim Ferreira
Prof. Cesar Vargas-Rosales
Dr. Mahdi Zareei
Guest Editors
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