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Physical Communication

Volume 9, December 2013, Pages 145-147
Physical Communication

Guest editorial
Special issue on Cognitive radio: The road for its second decade

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Kareem E. Baddour graduated from Memorial University, St. John’s, Canada, and received the M.Sc. (Eng.) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. Dr. Baddour is a research scientist at the Communications Research Centre, where he has been since 2006. His research interests are in signal processing for wireless communications with a current focus on dynamic spectrum access networks. He has published numerous articles in these areas and received a best

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Kareem E. Baddour graduated from Memorial University, St. John’s, Canada, and received the M.Sc. (Eng.) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. Dr. Baddour is a research scientist at the Communications Research Centre, where he has been since 2006. His research interests are in signal processing for wireless communications with a current focus on dynamic spectrum access networks. He has published numerous articles in these areas and received a best paper award at the International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems in 2010. He currently participates actively in various international research initiatives related to cognitive radio networks, including COST Action IC0902 and theWUNCognitive Communications Consortium. He has served on the Technical Program Committees of major international communication conferences, co-chaired the Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Sensing Track of IEEE VTC Fall 2012, and frequently serves as a reviewer for the IEEE journals that cover wireless communications.

Yeheskel Bar-Ness holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion, Israel, and the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from Brown University, Providence, RI. He is a Distinguished Professor of ECE, Foundation Chair of Communication and Signal Processing Research, and Executive Director of the Center for Wireless Communication and Signal Processing Research (CCSPR) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark. After working in the private sector, he joined the School of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University in 1973. He came to NJIT from AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1985. His current research interests include the design of MIMO-OFDM, and MC-CDMA, adaptive array and spatial interference cancellation and signal separation for multi-user communications, and modulation classification. Recently, he has contributed to the area of cooperative communication, modulation classification, cognitive radio, link adaptation with cooperative diversity, cross layer design and analysis and scheduling and beam-forming for downlink with limited feedback. He has published numerous papers in these areas.

He serves on the editorial board of WIRED Magazine, was the founding Editor-in-chief of IEEE Communications Letters, and was associate and area editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Communication Networks. He has been the technical chair of several major conferences and symposiums and was the recipient of the Kaplan Prize (1973), which is awarded annually by the government of Israel to the ten best technical contributors. He is a Fellow of IEEE and is the recipient of the IEEE Communication Society’s Ëxemplary Service Award”, and was selected the ”NJ 2006 Inventor of the Year”, recognized for ”systems and methods to enhance wireless/mobile communications”.

Octavia A. Dobre received the Dipl. Ing. And Ph.D. degrees in ECE from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (formerly the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest), Romania, in 1991 and 2000, respectively. In 2000 she was the recipient of a Royal Society scholarship at Westminster University, UK, and in 2001 she held a Fulbright fellowship at Stevens Institute of Technology, US. Between 2002 and 2005, she was a Research Associate with the New Jersey Institute of Technology, US. Since 2005 she has been with the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University, Canada, where she is currently an Associate Professor. Her research interests include cognitive radio systems, spectrum sensing techniques, blind signal recognition and parameter estimation techniques, transceiver optimization algorithms, dynamic spectrum access, cooperative wireless communications, network coding, resource allocation, and optical OFDM. She published over 100 journal and conference papers in these areas.

Dr. Dobre is a Senior Editor for IEEE Communications Letters, as well as an Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials and ELSEVIER Phycom. She also served as a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics on Signal Processing. She is the Co-Chair for IEEE GLOBECOM 2013, and served as a Co-Chair for IEEE ICC 2013, IEEE VTC Spring 2013, ICNC 2012 and IEEE CCECE 2009.

Mengüç Öner received his B.Sc. degree from Bogazii University, Istanbul Turkey in 1998 and his M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing.) and Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) degrees from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2001 and 2004, respectively. In 2005, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Işık University, Istanbul, Turkey,where he currently serves as an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include cognitive radio, spectrum sensing, signal identification, blind source separation and generally, signal processing for communications.

Erchin Serpedin received the specialization degree in signal processing and transmission of information from Ecole Superieure D’ Électricité (SUPELEC), Paris, France, in 1992, the M.Sc. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, in January 1999. He is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station. He is the author of two research monographs, one edited textbook, 100 journal papers and 150 conference papers, and has served as associate editor for about 10 journals such as IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Signal Processing (Elsevier), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Phycom, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, and EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. His research interests include signal processing, wireless communications, computational statistics, bioinformatics and systems biology. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Umberto Spagnolini graduated as Dott. Ing. Elettronica (cum laude) from the Politecnico di Milano in 1988. Since 1990 he has been a faculty member of the Dipartimento di Elettronica Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano, where he is Full Professor in Telecommunications. His research in statistical signal processing covers remote sensing and communication systems, with more than 250 papers on peerreviewed journals/conferences and patents. The specific areas of interest include channel estimation and space-time processing for single/multi-user wireless communication systems, cooperative and distributed methods, parameter estimation/tracking and wavefield interpolation for remote sensing (UWB radar and oil exploration). He was the recipient/co-recipient of Best Paper Awards from EAGE on geophysical signal processing methods (1991, 1998), and IEEE on array processing (ICASSP 2006) and distributed synchronization for wireless sensor networks (SPAWC 2007, WRECOM 2007). He served as part of IEEE Editorial boards as well as a member in technical program committees of several conferences for all the areas of interests.

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