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Cognitive Radio Mobile Ad Hoc Networks investigates the design, optimization and performance evaluation of these mobile networks. Readers will find a in-depth coverage of cognitive radio concepts, intrinsic properties and research challenges.

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Cognitive radios (CR) technology is capable of sensing its surrounding environment and adapting its internal states by making corresponding changes in certain operating parameters. CR is envisaged to solve the problems of the limited available spectrum and the inefficiency in the spectrum usage. CR has been considered in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), which enable wireless devices to dynamically establish networks without necessarily using a fixed infrastructure. The changing spectrum environment and the importance of protecting the transmission of the licensed users of the spectrum mainly differentiate classical MANETs from CR-MANETs. The cognitive capability and re-configurability of CR-MANETs have opened up several areas of research which have been explored extensively and continue to attract research and development. The book will describe CR-MANETs concepts, intrinsic properties and research challenges of CR-MANETs. Distributed spectrum management functionalities, such as spectrum sensing and sharing, will be presented. The design, optimization and performance evaluation of security issues and upper layers in CR-MANETs, such as transport and application layers, will be investigated.

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PART 1: Dynamic Spectrum Access.- Chapter 1: Distributed Consensus-Based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Chapter 2: On the Spectrum Handoff for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks without Common Control Channel.- Chapter 3: Environment-Mobility Interaction Mapping for Cognitive MANETs.- Chapter 4: Spectrum Sharing in DS-CDMA/OFDM Wireless Mobile Networks.- PART 2: Medium Access Control.- Chapter 5: CREAM-MAC: Cognitive Radio-EnAbled Multi-Channel MAC for Wireless Networks.- Chapter 6: Cognitive MAC Protocol with Transmission Tax: Probabilistic Analysis and Performance Improvements.- Chapter 7: Control Channel Management In Dynamic Spectrum Access Based Ad Hoc Networks.- PART 3: Topology Control and Routing.- Chapter 8: Topology Control and Routing in Cognitive Radio Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Chapter 9: Routing Schemes for Cognitive Radio Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Chapter 10: Delay in Cognitive Radio Networks.- PART 4: Multimedia Transmissions.- Chapter 11: Real-time Multimedia Transmission over Cognitive Radio Networks.- PART 5: Applications of Cognitive Radio Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Chapter 12: An Adaptive WiFi/WiMAX Networking Platform for Cognitive Vehicular Networks.- Chapter 13: Cognitive Radio Mobile Ad Hoc Networks in Healthcare.-Chapter 14: Interoperability Between IEEE 802.11e and HSDPA: Challenges From Cognitive Radio.- Chapter 15: An Autonomous Access Point for Cognitive Wireless Networks.- PART 6: Game Theoretic Approach for Modeling and Optimization.- Chapter 16: Economic Approaches in Cognitive Radio Networks.- Chapter 17: Game Based Self-Coexistence Schemes in Cognitive Radio Networks.

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