Cognitive Communications (PDF)

This book discusses in-depth the concept of distributed
artificial intelligence (DAI) and its application to 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.