CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Cognitive Radio: Theory and Applications
The radio frequency spectrum is becoming scarce. Conventional fixed spectrum allocation however results in low
utilization of the allocated spectrum. Cognitive radio is a novel technology which improves the spectrum utilization
by allowing secondary networks (users) to borrow unused radio spectrum from primary licensed networks (users) or
to share the spectrum with the primary networks (users). As an intelligent wireless communication system, cognitive
radio is aware of the radio frequency environment, selects the communication parameters (such as carrier frequency,
bandwidth and transmission power) to optimize the spectrum usage, and adapts its transmission and reception
accordingly.

Using cognitive radio, tremendous economic benefits can be generated to both telecom operators and customers
through reusing the unused or underutilized spectrum. The success of cognitive radio technology however depends
on the interdisciplinary research and effort from various technical societies, including, e.g., signal processing, infor-
mation theory, communications engineering, artificial intelligence as well as cooperation/game theory societies. For
example, casual reasoning, which is an active area of research in the domain of artificial intelligence, can provide
ways for a cognitive radio to increase its context awareness. Cooperation theory, on the other hand, is one of the
highly valuable modeling tools for cognitive radio and cognitive wireless networks which can be used to model sys-
tem sensitivity against non-cooperating or hostile users. As the freedom of selecting different operational modes and
parameters is increasing with number of terminals, it becomes important to understand what are the limitations and
benefits of cooperation in such networked environment.

This special issue aims at bringing together the state-of-art research results on cognitive radio and its applications.
We target academic research contribution in cognitive radio dealing with interdisciplinary research, as well as appli-
cation-oriented contributions dealing with architecture, platform, signaling and multiple access schemes. Original
contributions, previously unpublished and not currently under review by another journal, are solicited in relevant
areas including (but not limited to) the following:

• Information theory for cognitive radio • Dynamic spectrum management

• Multiple access scheme for cognitive radio networks • Cross layer design for cognitive radio
• Solutions for protecting primary users • Anti-jamming channel coding
• Biologically informed networks for cognitive radio • Interdisciplinary research for cognitive radio
• Spectrum sensing mechanism and protocol support
• Efficient multi-band multi-resolution channel sensing algorithms
• Synchronization and channel estimation for cognitive radio
• QoS provisioning and MAC protocol for cognitive radio
• Radio knowledge representation language (RKRL) for cognitive radio
• Cooperation theory, game theory and causal reasoning for cognitive radio networks

Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in the information for authors. All
papers should be submitted to in PDF format via email to Y.-C. Liang, ycliang@i2r.a-star.edu.sg, according to the
following timetable:

• Manuscript Submission Due: March 1, 2007

• Acceptance Notification: August 1, 2007
• Final Manuscript Due: October 1, 2007
• Publication: 1st Quarter 2008

Ying-Chang Liang Hsiao-Hwa Chen Joseph Mitola III

Institute for Infocomm Research National Sun Yat-Sen University The MITRE Corporation
Singapore Taiwan USA
ycliang@i2r.a-star.edu.sg hshwchen@ieee.org jmitola@mitre.org

Petri Mahonen Ryuji Kohno Jeff Reed

RWTH Aachen Yokohama National University Virginia Tech
Germany Japan USA
pma@mobnets.rwth-aachen.de kohno@ynu.ac.jp reedjh@vt.edu