An allocation of sensing and reporting times is proposed to improve the sensing performance by scheduling them in an efficient way for cognitive radio networks with cluster-based cooperative spectrum sensing. In the conventional cooperative sensing scheme, all secondary users (SUs) detect the primary user (PU) signal to check the availability of the spectrum during a fixed sensing time slot. Th...

The paper proposes several dynamic bandwidth allocation strategies for QoS routing on TDMA-based mobile ad hoc networks. Comprehensively, these strategies are called a distributed slots reservation protocol (DSRP). In DSRP, QoS routing only depends on one-hop neighboring information of each mobile host (MH). In addition, slot inhibited policies (SIPs) and slot decision policies (SDPs) are propo...

The burst allocation algorithm is responsible about calculating the appropriate dimensions and location of each user’s data to construct the bursts in the downlink subframe in term of the number of slots for each user. Burst allocation is one of the performance parameter which influences the mobile WiMAX systems, due to resource wastage in the form of unused and unallocated slots per frame whic...

A radio network (RN for short) is a distributed system with no central arbiter, consisting of n radio transceivers, henceforth referred to as stations. We assume that the stations run on batteries and expends power while broadcasting/receiving a data packet. Thus, the most important measure to evaluate protocols on the radio network is the number of awake time slots, in which a station is broad...

Under interference constraint and energy consumption constraint, to maximize the channel utilization, an opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) strategy for a slotted secondary user (SU) overlaying an unslotted ON/OFF continuous time Markov chain (CTMC) modeled primary network is proposed. The OSA strategy is investigated via a cross-layer optimization approach, with joint consideration of sensing...

Spacecraft observations suggest that the plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus draw water from a subsurface ocean, but the sustainability of conduits linking ocean and surface is not understood. Observations show eruptions from "tiger stripe" fissures that are sustained (although tidally modulated) throughout each orbit, and since the 2005 discovery of the plumes. Peak plume flux lags peak tidal ex...