II4004 Cognitive Radio Communications Syllabus:

II4004 Cognitive Radio Communications Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021

OBJECTIVES:

 To enable the student to understand the evolving paradigm of cognitive radio communication and the enabling technologies for its implementation.
 To enable the student to understand the essential functionalities and requirements in designing software defined radios and their usage for cognitive communication.
 To expose the student to the evolving next generation wireless networks and their associated challenges.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO SDR

Definitions and potential benefits – software radio architecture evolution – foundations, technology tradeoffs and architecture implications – Antenna for Cognitive Radio.

UNIT II SDR ARCHITECTURE

Essential functions of the software radio – architecture goals – quantifying degrees of programmability – top level component topology – computational properties of functional components – interface topologies among plug and play modules, architecture partitions.

UNIT III INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE RADIOS

Marking radio self-aware, the cognition cycle – organization of congnition tasks – structuring knowledge for cognition tasks – Enabling location and environment awareness in cognitive radios – concepts, architecture, design considerations.

UNIT IV COGNITIVE RADIO ARCHITECTURE

Primary Cognitive Radio functions, Behaviors, Components, A–Priori Knowledge taxonomy, observe – phase data structures, Radio procedure knowledge encapsulation – components of orient, plan, decide phases, act phase knowledge representation, design rules.

UNIT V NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS NETWORKS

The XG Network architecture – spectrum sensing – spectrum management – spectrum mobility, spectrum sharing – upper layer issues – cross – layer design.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

OUTCOMES:

 The student would be able to appreciate the motivation and the necessity for cognitive radiocommunication strategies.
 The student would be able to evolve new techniques and demonstrate their feasibility using mathematical validations and simulation tools.
 The student would be able to demonstrate the impact of the evolved solutions in future wireless network design.

REFERENCES:

1. Alexander M. Wyglinski, MaziarNekovee, And Y. Thomas Hou, “Cognitive Radio Communications And Networks – Principles And Practice”, Elsevier Inc. , 2010.
2. Kwang-Cheng Chen and Ramjee Prasad, ” Cognitive Radio Networks” , John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2009.
3. Khattab, Ahmed, Perkins, Dmitri, Bayoumi, Magdy, “Cognitive Radio Networks – From Theory to Practice”, Springer Series: Analog Circuits and Signal Processing, 2009.
4. J. Mitola, “ Cognitive Radio: An Integrated Agent Architecture for software defined radio”,Doctor of Technology thesis, Royal Inst. Technology, Sweden 2000.
5. Simon Haykin, “Cognitive Radio: Brain –empowered wireless communications”, IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications, Feb 2005.
6. Ian F. Akyildiz, Won – Yeol Lee, Mehmet C. Vuran, ShantidevMohanty, “ NeXt generation /dynamic spectrum access / cognitive radio wireless networks: A Survey Elsevier ComputerNetworks, May 2006.