Sharif Digital Repository

In this thesis, the effect of cognition in wireless networks is studied. In a wireless communica-tion network, cognition is the ability of a device to sense the transmissions of neighboring nodes and adapt its own transmission to the sensed environment. Cognitive radios are very attractive be-cause of the increasing need for more efficient use of frequency spectrum. The goal of this thesis is the analysis of cognitive radio networks from an information theoretic perspective and to this end statistical models of the wireless medium with a limited and tractable number of devices are uti-lized. We consider three different models in three parts of the thesis. First, we consider a new... 

In recent years, the Cognitive Radio Network has received significant attentions due to its high potential for better employment of the spectrum. One of the most important parts of this technology is the spectrum sensing that requires being fast and accurate. The conventional algorithms proposed so far encounter some fundamental challenges at low SNR regimes and in wideband sensing. On the other hand, the compressed sensing algorithms, which take advantages of the sparsity of the signal of interest and utilize measurements instead of the samples, can reduce the sampling rate and thus decrease the complexity associated with the wideband sensing. In this thesis, by exploiting the... 

In recent years, UWB multiple access communication systems have received a great attention due to its many advantages. The most important advantages of a UWB system can be summarized as its high data rates, low power consumption, fading immunity and high precision routing. One of the important problems in a UWB system implementation is in its receiver part in which in order to use a coherent RAKE receiver, the channel coefficients have to be estimated. Since UWB channel is a dense multipath fading channel with a very high number of resolvable paths, the channel coefficient estimation based on using training sequence is very complicated. To resolve this problem, transmit reference (TR)... 

In this thesis, we consider the problem of spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks. First, the collaborative energy detectors based spectrum sensing are investigated in the case of known noise variance for two models of primary user (PU) signal, i.e. random and unknown deterministic signals. Since the derived optimum collaborative energy detector requires the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of secondary users (SU) and it has complex structure, the generalized likelihood ratio (GLR) detector is proposed for both models of PU signal which leads to the same decision rules for both models. Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed GLR detector is near to that of optimal... 

With recent successes in laboratory tests, and in atmosphere and space demonstrations, there is no doubt that the free-space optical (FSO) communications is ready for operational deployment. Large bandwidth, unlicensed spectrum, excellent security, and quick and inexpensive setup are among its most attractive features. Despite their attractive features, FSO communications suffer from several challenges in practical deployment; the major of them is fading or scintillation and path loss. To overcome such limitations, Channel Coding along with MIMO and Cooperative techniques have been proposed. Although the promising effects of cooperative transmissions in RF communications have greatly been... 

Infrared wireless local area networks are a suitable choice for a fast and cheap wireless network, providing rates over 10 Mbps with access to unregulated bandwidth. Among multiple-access techniques for infrared wireless networks, CDMA1 has attracted the most interest, due to its simple structure and power ecency. However, spreading the spectrum in CDMA prohibits exploiting the low-rate strong channel codes. The other limiting factor in infrared networks is the channel dispersion. In this thesis, these two issues are considered and an internally coded scheme for time-hopping CDMA, suitable for wireless infrared communication is proposed and with accurate modelling of infrared dispersive... 

The compute-and-forward (CMF) method has shown a great promise as an innovative approach to exploit interference towards achieving higher network throughput. Here, instead of recovering single messages, the relays attempt to reliably decode (compute) and pass an integer linear combination of the transmitted messages, referred to as an equation, to the destination. By receiving sufficient equations,the destination can solve the linear equation system to recover the desired messages.Two main challenges of the CMF methods are the computational complexity and the rank failure problem at the destination. In this thesis, to decrease the implementation as well as the computational complexity of the... 

Future mobile networks are expected to not only bring more wireless connectivity and higher data rates, but also to support several high-quality services including low-latency, ultra-reliable, and energy-efficient communications. To support these needs, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have recently attracted a lot of attention due to their potential for reconfiguring the wireless channel and are considered as a promising solution for future mobile generations. On the other hand, the exponential growth of network traffic, and its non-uniform distribution result in network congestion during peak-traffic times and network underutilization during off-peak times. Caching or content... 

In this thesis, we investigate the previously introduced Code-Shifted Reference (CSR) time hopping (TH) ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems as a potential transmitted scheme reference technique. In this system, the orthogonality between the reference and data bearing signals is acquired in code domain. Also, we consider a simple scheme to clean to obtain a clean template to be used in the correlator receiver for the CSR –UWB, this method was used in UWB system before. In this method, which we call as averaged (Ave.) CSR-UWB, the template for each symbol is obtained by taking the average over all the frames of the symbol interval. It is shown that Ave-CSR system achieves higher... 

In recent years, coded cooperation has been considered as one of the best methods to cope with fading and at the same time to achieve channel coding gain. On the other hand, the idea of network coding has been introduced for increasing the efficiency of cooperative networks. In addition, it has been shown that only by jointly designing of network coding and channel coding, the capacity will be achievable. Also, to adjust the rate to the channel capacity without requiring the channel state information at the transmitter, Rateless coding has been proposed. In this thesis above techniques are combined to gain their advantages and to improve system performance. To this end, first we consider a... 

Powerful spectrum sensing and access strategies enable cognitive radios to find transmission opportunity in spectral resources dedicated exclusively to the incumbent/primary users (PUs). One of the key effecting factors on cognitive radio network (CRN) throughput is the spectrum sensing sequence used by each secondary user (SU). In this thesis, modeling, performance evaluation, and throughput maximization of a CRN are investigated. More specifically, firstly we evaluate the performance of sequential method for handovers regarding a SU’s average throughput and consumed energy, and an optimization problem is formulated to maximize the throughput through selecting optimal channel sensing time.... 

Opportunistic spectrum access in cognitive radio networks has introduced multiple challenges in the realization of this technology. One of these key challenges is spectrum mobility, in which a secondary user (SU) must be able to vacate channels upon the appearance of a primary user (PU) and reestablish a communication link to avoid service termination, known as spectrum handoff. For a connection-based modeling, multiple interruptions can occur, which lead to multiple handoffs; hence, in a proactive approach, a sequence of target channels, rather than a single target channel must be determined. The first parts of this thesisis dedicated to the analysis of a time-slotted cognitive radio, in... 

Cognitive radio faces specific challenges due to its special spectrum access scheme. Providing required QoS and preventing irrecoverable interference on the primary users is among the crucial requirements. Beam forming is one of the interference avoidance schemes utilized in MIMO networks. Most of the studies on this scheme assume that each symbol is transmitted via vectors in order to grant desired beam forming and specific combinations in the receiver. Since transmitting multiple symbols at every transmission can provide higher data rates, it seems necessary to exploit beam forming through matrixes instead of vectors. In this thesis, by neglecting the interference of the secondary user,... 

In Massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems, due to utilizing a large antenna array in each base station, each user’s channel is orthogonal to one another. These systems have some valuable advantages such as the reduction of energy needed for transmission and significant improvement in spectral efficiency, which makes them be suitable for the next generation of wireless communication systems. In this thesis a massive MIMO working is considered on TDD mode, for wich the channel estimation is done in the base station using the pilot sequences recieved from users. At the beginning of each coherence block, users send their pilot sequences and the rest of the times is allocated to... 

Cognitive Radio (CR), as a new concept to efficiently utilize a licensed spectrum, and this has received intensive attension in recent years. By applying the cognitive technique, an unlicensed user (the secondary user (SU)) is allowed to transmit at the Primary User’s (PU) spectrum band under some conditions. Different approaches have been introduced to be utilized by the SU in order to be able to efficiently transmit at the PR’s spectrum without any sustainsial destructive effects on PR transmission and reception, which one of them is using multiple antenna in the cognitive transmitter. Hereby, CR is able to increase its throughput without substansial harmfull effect on PR’ transmission by... 

In the recent years, the cooperative communications based on Network Coding have received significant attentions to simultaneously improve the diversity order and the network throughput. In this thesis, a new cooperative transmission scheme for the cooperative relay-based networks called “Convolutional Network-Coded Cooperation” (CNCC) is proposed, in which a systematic convolutional code is used in the network level. In this scheme, the systematic packets are directly transmitted by the sources, and the parity packets, calculated based on the received sources’ packets, are transmitted by the relays. The proposed CNCC scheme is considered in the cooperative networks including N sources, M... 

In the recent years, sensors and biosensors attracts much attentions as a suitable devices in analytical chemistry. In this meantime carbon nanostructures and metal nanoparticles act as a good choice owing to their unique properties such as high electrical conductivity andmechanical and chemical stability in modification of the surface of sensors and biosensors. Because of importance of analysis the trace amounts of pharmaceutical and biological compounds, in this studies the surface of glassy carbon electrode was modified with some carbon nanostructures and metal nanoparticles for electrochemical investigation and determination of pharmaceutical and clinical compounds.In the first work, a... 

Molecular communication (MC), which has stimulated a great deal of interest in recent years, is a new paradigm for communication among nanoscale biological machines. In MC, molecules are carriers of information and information is encoded into concentration, type or releasing time of molecules. One of the issues in MC is to consider a network consisting of multiple nano-sensors or living cells, which intend to communicate with each other.In this thesis, we first consider multiple-access networks in MC. In multiple-access networks, multiple sender nano-machines intend to communicate with a receiver nano-machine through a common medium. We consider the receiver with ligandreceptors and... 

Wireless communication networks are undergoing a significant transformation from coverage-driven deployment of macrocells to user-centric and cluster-based capacity-driven deployments of low-power base stations (BSs), usually at the locations of high user density. On the other hand, the increasing irregularity and randomness in the locations of nodes has led to an increased interest in the use of random spatial models along with tools from stochastic geometry and point process theory for their accurate modeling and tractable analysis. To this end, this thesis investigates clustered networks for different wireless applications. In this regards, comprehensive and tractable analytic frameworks... 

In this thesis, a novel OFDMA-based cognitive cooperative relaying scheme is proposed in which cognitive users not only try not to interfere with primary users but also assist them by relaying their information. Both primary users (PU) and cognitive users (CR) communicate to a common base station (BS). Bit error probability (BEP) of primary users and outage probability of primary users are investigated to evaluate performance of the primary users. In all parts of this thesis, we assume that data of users is not jointly encoded across subcarriers. So, the outage probability and BEP are investigated for each subcarrier independently. In the last part of the thesis, it is assumed that data is...