Radio Engineering: From Software Radio to Cognitive Radio

Acknowledgments

 

 

 

Writing a collective book with more than 10 authors was a very rewarding experience. This book is the result, and we hope that this book it will give the readers all the keys to enter into new areas, which are software radio and cognitive radio.

 

The authors wish to thank Pierre-Noël Favennec, series editor of Telecoms and Optics at ISTE, for offering the opportunity to write this book.

 

We are also grateful to Alain Bravo, director general Supélec, who honored us by writing the preface of this book.

 

Our thanks go initially to all our colleagues who participated in this scientific endeavor and whose works have largely served as base material for this book.

 

Alphabetically, we thank:

– PhD colleagues: Laurent Alaus, Ali Al Gouwayel, Jean-Philippe Delahaye, Mohamed Ghozzi, Loïg Godard, Sufi Tabassum Gul, Rachid Hachemani, Sajjad Hussain, Stéphane Lecomte, Sylvain Le Gallou, Adel Metref, Hongzhi Wang, and Sidkiéta Zabré;

– Post-doctoral colleagues: Julien Delorme, Thi Minh Hien Ngo, and Virgilio Rodriguez.

 

We are indebted to all the reviewers who kindly agreed to spare their precious time to review this book and give valuable comments to significantly improve the quality of the book.

 

Alphabetically, we thank: Eric Bayet, Moïse Djoko Kouam, Damien Ernst, Guy Gognat, Yann Le Guillou, Jérome Martin, Markus Muck, Dominique Noguet, Dominique Nussbaum, Christian Roland, Ronan Sauleau, and Martine Villegas.

 

The authors would like to express their special ...