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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,649 Views
16 Pages

28 January 2024

To address the issue of inconspicuous electricity consumption characteristics among vacant users in low-voltage distribution networks (LVDNs), which hinders effective line–household relationship identification (LHRI), a method for identifying l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,435 Views
21 Pages

6 September 2022

The growing traffic on city streets leads to traffic disruptions, lowering the level of road safety, as well as the problem of finding a vacant parking space. Drivers looking for a vacant parking space on the street generate so-called search traffic....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,696 Views
17 Pages

9 January 2023

For the purpose of determining whether vacant taxis are supposed to use high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, this paper builds a framework to explore the performances of a network before and after vacant taxis use HOV lanes and to detect the optimal d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
976 Views
22 Pages

Dynamic Channel Selection for Rendezvous in Cognitive Radio Networks

  • Mohammed Hawa,
  • Ramzi Saifan,
  • Talal A. Edwan and
  • Oswa M. Amro

15 September 2025

In an attempt to improve utilization of the frequency spectrum left vacant by license holders, cognitive radio networks (CRNs) permit secondary users (SUs) to utilize such spectrum when the license holders, known as primary users (PUs), are inactive....

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,405 Views
19 Pages

Primary User Traffic Pattern Based Opportunistic Spectrum Handoff in Cognitive Radio Networks

  • Kaleem Arshid,
  • Iftikhar Hussain,
  • Muhammad Khawar Bashir,
  • Shahid Naseem,
  • Allah Ditta,
  • Natash Ali Mian,
  • Misha Zahid and
  • Israr Ali Khan

2 March 2020

Through the expeditious expansion of the wireless network, the unlicensed bandwidth-based devices are growing substantially as compared to the present vacant bandwidth. Cognitive radio networks present a proficient solution to the spectrum shortage d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,045 Views
14 Pages

Primary User Emulation Attacks: A Detection Technique Based on Kalman Filter

  • Zakaria El Mrabet,
  • Youness Arjoune,
  • Hassan El Ghazi,
  • Badr Abou Al Majd and
  • Naima Kaabouch

Cognitive radio technology addresses the problem of spectrum scarcity by allowing secondary users to use the vacant spectrum bands without causing interference to the primary users. However, several attacks could disturb the normal functioning of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,269 Views
14 Pages

Factors Influencing Seating Preferences in Semi-Outdoor Learning Spaces at Tropical Universities

  • Yiqi Tao,
  • Fangyuan Zhao,
  • Meixinyu Xue,
  • Boya Jiang,
  • Stephen Siu Yu Lau and
  • Ling Zhang

Semi-outdoor learning spaces are becoming increasingly popular with both students and teachers at tropical universities; however, some of the seats are always vacant. This study focused on the selection of seating in semi-outdoor spaces in a universi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,406 Views
13 Pages

7 July 2017

Canada’s third-generation HFSWR forms the foundation of a maritime domain awareness system that provides enforcement agencies with real-time persistent surveillance out to and beyond the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Cognitive sens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,874 Views
16 Pages

Integrating Humanising Aspects into Urban Design: A Comprehensive Framework for Enhancing Quality of Life in Jeddah City

  • Ahmed Mohamed Refaat,
  • Shahad Ghazoliy,
  • Hosam Salah El Samaty and
  • Ahmed Abd Elaziz Waseef

12 October 2024

“Humanising cities” is a significant topic in recent urban discussions, driven by diverse applications among urban managers and decision-makers. The Saudi Arabia initiative, through a quality-of-life programme, exemplifies efforts to inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,645 Views
15 Pages

Day by day, the demand for wireless systems is increasing while the available spectrum resources are not sufficient. To fulfil the demand for wireless systems, the spectrum hole (spectrum vacant) should be found and utilised very effectively. Cogniti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,902 Views
15 Pages

20 November 2017

As part of an urban policy designed to revive South Korea’s shrinking cities, vacant residential structures are being demolished and the resulting empty plots transformed into public spaces. This study discursively examines this process, its stakehol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,832 Views
21 Pages

Economic Land Utilization Optimization Model

  • Ossama A. Hosny,
  • Elkhayam M. Dorra,
  • Khaled A. Tarabieh,
  • Ahmed El Eslamboly,
  • Ibrahim Abotaleb,
  • Mariam Amer,
  • Heba Kh. Gad,
  • Mostafa Farouk,
  • Youmna Abd El Raouf and
  • Youssef Hussein
  • + 1 author

1 February 2023

Recently, population growth and resource depletion have been matched by a growing demand for self-sustaining communities. Numerous studies promote sustainable solutions to the concerns of climate change and food scarcity. This study aims at creating...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,717 Views
19 Pages

A Trust Framework to Detect Malicious Nodes in Cognitive Radio Networks

  • Geetanjali Rathee,
  • Farhan Ahmad,
  • Chaker A. Kerrache and
  • Muhammad Ajmal Azad

7 November 2019

Cognitive radio is considered as a pioneering technique in the domain of wireless communication as it enables and permits the Cognitive Users (CU) to exploit the unused channels of the Primary Users (PU) for communication and networking. The CU nodes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,299 Views
20 Pages

How Attractive for Walking Are the Main Streets of a Shrinking City?

  • Aura-Luciana Istrate,
  • Vojtěch Bosák,
  • Alexandr Nováček and
  • Ondřej Slach

28 July 2020

This research assesses the way main streets are perceived and used by pedestrians in an industrial, Central-European city—Ostrava in Czechia. The city has recently experienced shrinkage and changing patterns of socio-economic exchange, reason w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,164 Views
25 Pages

Cognitive radio (CR) has evolved as a novel technology for overcoming the spectrum-scarcity problem in wireless communication networks. With its opportunistic behaviour for improving the spectrum-usage efficiency, CR enables the desired secondary use...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,027 Views
28 Pages

Energy-Efficient Channel Handoff for Sensor Network-Assisted Cognitive Radio Network

  • Muhammad Usman,
  • Muhammad Sajjad Khan,
  • Hiep Vu-Van and
  • Koo Insoo

23 July 2015

The visiting and less-privileged status of the secondary users (SUs) in a cognitive radio network obligates them to release the occupied channel instantly when it is reclaimed by the primary user. The SU has a choice to make: either wait for the chan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,232 Views
22 Pages

17 October 2021

Cognitive radio technology enables spectrum sensing (SS), which allows the secondary user (SU) to access vacant frequency bands in the periods when the primary user (PU) is not active. Due to its minute implementation complexity, the SS approach base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,081 Views
26 Pages

24 September 2025

Urban development is the planned growth of cities that takes into account ecological issues, the needs of urban life, social and technical equipment standards, and quality of life. However, as a result of policies implemented by decision-makers and u...