Spectrum Sharing in Wireless Networks: Fairness, Efficiency, and Security

Spectrum Sharing in Wireless Networks: Fairness, Efficiency, and Security provides a broad overview of wireless network spectrum sharing in seven distinct sections: The first section examines the big picture and basic principles, explaining the concepts of spectrum sharing, hardware/software function requirements for efficient sharing, and future trends of sharing strategies.

The second section contains more than 10 chapters that discuss differing approaches to efficient spectrum sharing. The authors introduce a new coexistence and sharing scheme for multi-hop networks, describe the space-time sharing concept, introduce LTE-U, and examine sharing in broadcast and unicast environments. They then talk about different cooperation strategies to achieve mutual benefits for primary users (PU) and secondary users (SU), discuss protocols in a spectrum sharing context, and provide different game theory models between PUs and SUs.

The third section explains how to model the interactions of PUs and SUs, using an efficient calculation method to determine spectrum availability. Additionally, this section explains how to use scheduling models to achieve efficient SU traffic delivery. The subject of the fourth section is MIMO-oriented design. It focuses on how directional antennas and MIMO antennas greatly enhance wireless network performance. The authors include a few chapters on capacity/rate calculations as well as beamforming issues under MIMO antennas.

Power control is covered in the fifth section which also describes the interference-aware power allocation schemes among cognitive radio users and the power control schemes in cognitive radios. The sixth section provides a comprehensive look at security issues, including different types of spectrum sharing attacks and threats as well as corresponding countermeasure schemes. The seventh and final section covers issues pertaining to military applications and examines how the military task protects its data flows when sharing the spectrum with civilian applications.

Table of Contents

SECTION I: BIG PICTURE
Chapter 1: Physical Aspects of Spectrum Sharing
Chapter 2: Perspective on the Design of Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing

SECTION II: APPROACHES TO SPECTRUM SHARING
Chapter 3: New Coexistence and Sharing Paradigms for Multihop Secondary Networks
Chapter 4: Space-Time Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks
Chapter 5: LTE in the Unlicensed Band (LTE-U)
Chapter 6: Licensed Shared Access to spectrum
Chapter 7: Spectrum Sharing in Broadcast and Unicast Hybrid Cellular Network
Chapter 8: Cooperation Based Dynamic Spectrum Sharing in CRNs
Chapter 9: Cooperation in Cognitive Radio Networks
Chapter 10: Cross-Layer Design for Spectrum Efficiency
Chapter 11: Spectrum-Aware Routing in Cognitive Radio Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (CR-VANETs): Challenges and Solutions
Chapter 12: The Spectrum Sharing Games
Chapter 13: Game-Theoretic Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing
Chapter 14: An Adaptive Game Theoretic Framework for Self-coexistence among Cognitive Radio Enabled Smart Grid Networks

SECTION III: MODELING ISSUES
Chapter 15: Performance Modeling of Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing
Chapter 16: Calculation Methods for Spectrum Availability
Chapter 17: How To Use Novel Methods For Improving The Performance Of Wireless Cognitive Networks
Chapter 18: Low-Complexity and High-Efficient Scheduling Schemes For Spectrum-Sharing-Based Secondary Transmissions

SECTION IV: MIMO-ORIENTED DESIGN
Chapter 19: Capacity Scaling of MIMO Broadcast Channels with Finite-rate Feedback
Chapter 20: On the Achievable Sum-Rate of MIMO Bidirectional Underlay Cognitive Cooperative Networks
Chapter 21: Robust Beamforming Optimization for the Secondary Transmission in a Spectrum Sharing Cognitive Radio Network

SECTION V: POWER CONTROL
Chapter 22: Interference-Aware Power Allocation in Spectrum Sharing Cognitive Radio
Chapter 23: Energy-Efficient Power Control for Spectrum Sharing in Next-Generation Wireless Networks

SECTION VI: SECURITY
Chapter 24: Spectrum Sharing Vulnerability and Threat Assessment
Chapter 25: Security Measures for Efficient Spectrum Sharing
Chapter 26: Pragmatic Security Issues and Solutions for Spectrum Sharing in Wireless Networks

SECTION VII: MILITARY APPLICATIONS
Chapter 27: Spectrum in Defense: From Commodity to Maneuver Space