Cognitive Radios and Networks

Catalog description

This course studies multiple aspects of cognitive radios and their operation in a cognitive network. Cognitive radios are an artificial intelligence agent that, instead of operating in the more common three-dimensional physical space that surround us, it learns and operates in the “virtual” space of the radio spectrum. Topics to be covered include an overview of wireless channels and wireless communications, cognitive radios network paradigms, spectrum sensing and dynamic spectrum access, spectrum exploration and exploitation through game theory and machine learning, cross-layer cognitive radios and cognitive networking.