About the Book:
This
is the first book dedicated to cognitive radio, a promising new technology that
is poised to revolutionize the telecommunications industry with increased
wireless flexibility. Cognitive radio technology integrates computational
intelligence into software-defined radio for embedded intelligent agents that
adapt to RF environments and user needs. Using this technology, users can more
fully exploit the radio spectrum and services available from wireless
connectivity. For example, an attempt to send a 10MB e-mail in a zone where
carrier charges are high might cause a cognitive radio to alert its user and
suggest waiting until getting to the office to use the LAN instead. Cognitive
Radio Architecture examines an "ideal cognitive radio" that features
autonomous machine learning, computer vision, and spoken or written language
perception.
The
author of this exciting new book is the inventor of the technology and a leader
in the field. Following his step-by-step introduction, readers can start
building aware/adaptive radios and then make steps towards cognitive radio.
After an introduction to adaptive, aware, and cognitive radio, the author
develops three major themes in three sections:
·
Foundations
·
Radio
Competence
·
User
Domain Competence
The book makes the design principles of
cognitive radio more accessible to students of teleinformatics, as well as to
wireless communications systems developers. It therefore embraces the practice
of cognitive radio as well as the theory. In particular, the publication
develops a cognitive architecture that integrates disparate disciplines,
including autonomous machine learning, computer vision, and language perception
technologies. An accompanying CD-ROM contains the Java source code and compiled
class files for applications developed in the book. In addition, for the
convenience of the reader, Web resources introducing key concepts such as
speech applications programmer interfaces (APIs) are included.
Although still five to ten years away from full deployment,
telecommunications giants and research labs around the world are already
dedicating R&D to this new technology. Telecommunications engineers as well
as advanced undergraduate and graduate students can learn the promising
possibilities of this innovative technology from the one who invented it. |
