Intelligent Sensor Networks

Chapter 9

Cognitive Wireless Sensor Networks

Sumit Kumar, Deepti Singhal, and Rama Murthy Garimella

Contents

9.1 Introduction to Wireless Sensor Networks

9.1.1 Common Design Issues in WSN

9.2 Cognitive Radio

9.3 Cognitive Radio–Based WSN

9.4 CWSN Architecture

9.5 Spectrum Sensing Schemes for CWSN

9.5.1 Blind Sensing Techniques

9.5.2 Signal Specific Sensing Techniques

9.5.3 Cooperative Sensing

9.6 Learning in CWSN

9.7 Challenges in Designing CWSN

9.8 Summary

References

9.1 Introduction to Wireless Sensor Networks

A wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of a set of sensor nodes that are deployed in a field and interconnected with a wireless communication network. In general, they have short-range communication ...