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This volume provides an introduction to software-defined and cognitive radio. The text describes the methodologies for applying knowledge representation, semantic web, logic reasoning and artificial intelligence to cognitive radio, enabling autonomous adaptation and flexible signaling.

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This book provides an introduction to software-defined radio and cognitive radio, along with methodologies for applying knowledge representation, semantic web, logic reasoning and artificial intelligence to cognitive radio, enabling autonomous adaptation and flexible signaling. Readers from the wireless communications and software-defined radio communities will use this book as a reference to extend software-defined radio to cognitive radio, using the semantic technology described.

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Introduction.- Cognitive Radio Architecture.- Collaborative Adaptation.- Signaling Options.- Agent Communication Language.- An Example: Collaborative Link Adaptation.- Knowledge and Interference.- Cognitive Radio Ontology.- Implementation of Collabortive Link Optimization.- Evaluations.- Typical Knobs.- Cognitive Radio Ontology.

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