Unit 1 Introduction to Cognitive Radios

9 lecture hours

• Digital dividend
• cognitive radio (CR) architecture
• functions of cognitive radio
• dynamic spectrum access (DSA)
• components of cognitive radio
• spectrum sensing
• spectrum analysis and decision
• potential applications of cognitive radio

Unit 2 Spectrum Sensing

9 lecture hours

• Spectrum sensing
• detection of spectrum holes (TVWS)
• collaborative sensing
• geo-location database and spectrum sharing business models (spectrum of commons
• real time secondary spectrum market)

Unit 3 Optimization Techniques of Dynamic Spectrum Allocation

9 lecture hours

• Linear programming
• convex programming
• non-linear programming
• integer programming
• dynamic programming
• stochastic programming

Unit 4 Dynamic Spectrum Access and Management

6 lecture hours

• Spectrum broker
• cognitive radio architectures
• centralized dynamic spectrum access
• distributed dynamic spectrum access
• learning algorithms and protocols

Unit 5 Spectrum Trading

6 lecture hours

• Introduction to spectrum trading
• classification to spectrum trading
• radio resource pricing
• brief discussion on economics theories in DSA (utility
• auction theory)
• classification of auctions (single auctions
• double auctions

Unit 6 Research Challenges in Cognitive Radio

• Network layer and transport layer issues
• cross layer design for cognitive radio networks. 6 10