Cognitive Radio and its Application for Next Generation Cellular and Wireless Networks

Introduction to Cognitive Radio.- Adaptive resource management in wireless networks.-Network coding mechanisms.- Cognitive collaborative/co-operative communications.- Cross-layer design for a cognitive wireless networks.- Capacity limitations in a CR-network.- Software design (SD) challenges.- System design for a CR-enabled wireless device.- FPGA level framework design for SD-CR network.- Environment-aware energy scavenging.- Next generation cognitive cellular networks.- Cognitive relays and adaptive multihop design in cellular networks.- Cognitive model for resource allocation.- New architectures for multiband multihop cellular networks.- Cognitive handover in heterogeneous cellular networks.- CR enhanced Vehicle-to-Vehicle communications.- CR enabled vehicular ad hoc networks.- Hybrid mode multihop communication.- Co-operative cognitive networking.- Seamless multimedia transmission.

Dr. Hrishikesh Venkataraman is a senior researcher and Enterprise Ireland (EI) Principal Investigator with Performance Engineering Laboratory at the Irish national research center - The RINCE Institute, in Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland. He obtained his Ph.D. from Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, in 2007 for his research on wireless cellular networks. He obtained his master's degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India, in 2004 and did his master's thesis from Vodafone Chair for Mobile Communications, Technical University Dresden, Germany, from 2003 to 2004 under the Indo-German DAAD Fellowship. His research interests include mobile multimedia, wireless communications and energy in wireless. Dr. Venkataraman has published more than 40 papers in journals, international conferences and book chapters and has won a best paper award in World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science in University of Berkeley, USA, in October 2009. Currently, Dr. Venkataraman is an Executive Editor of European Transactions on Telecommunications (ETT) and is a founding member of UKRI chapter of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.





Dr. Muntean has established a strong track record in the area of performance-aware data communications in heterogeneous network environments. Dr. Muntean is Director of the Network Innovations Centre of the RINCE Research Institute, co-Director of the Dublin City University (DCU) Performance Engineering Laboratory, a top Irish research laboratory which has a state-of-the-art facility in the DCU Engineering building, and Lecturer with the School of Electronic Engineering at DCU, Ireland. Dr. Muntean has successfully supervised five Ph.D. and four master's research students and is currently leading a team of 15 postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers. Dr. Muntean has been principal investigator or collaborator on many Enterprise Ireland, Science Foundation Ireland and Irish Research Council for Science