Cognitive Communications

In this book, the authors present an overview of cognitive communications, encompassing both cognitive radio and cognitive networks, and also other application areas such as cognitive acoustics. The book also explains the specific rationale for the integration of different forms of distributed artificial intelligence into cognitive communications, something which is often neglected in many forms of technical contributions available today. Furthermore, the chapters are divided into four disciplines: wireless communications, distributed artificial intelligence, regulatory policy and economics and implementation. The book contains contributions from leading experts (academia and industry) in the field.

Key Features:

• Covers the broader field of cognitive communications as a whole, addressing application to communication systems in general (e.g. cognitive acoustics and Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI)
• Illustrates how different DAI based techniques can be used to self-organise the radio spectrum
• Explores the regulatory, policy and economic issues of cognitive communications in the context of secondary spectrum access
• Discusses application and implementation of cognitive communications techniques in different application areas (e.g. Cognitive Femtocell Networks (CFN)
• Written by experts in the field from both academia and industry

Cognitive Communications will be an invaluable guide for research community (PhD students, researchers) in the areas of wireless communications, and development engineers involved in the design and development of mobile, portable and fixed wireless systems., wireless network design engineer. Undergraduate and postgraduate students on elective courses in electronic engineering or computer science, and the research and engineering community will also find this book of interest.

Dr. David Grace, University of York, UK
David Grace is Head of Communications Research Group and Co-Director of York-Zhejiang Lab for Cognitive Radio and Green Communications. He received his MEng and DPhil degrees from York in 1993 and 1999 respectively. David's current research interests include cognitive radio and green communications, specifically spectrum assignment aspects, and cognitive networking.

Dr. Honggang Zhang, Zhejiang University, China
Honggang Zhang is a Full Professor at the Department of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, China. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Kagoshima University, Japan, in March 1999. Prior to that, he received the Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering degrees, both in Electrical Engineering, from Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST), China, in 1989, and Lanzhou University of Technology, China, in 1992, respectively.