This SpringerBrief focuses on spectrum trading designs in multi-hop
cognitive radio networks. It starts with the motivation for spectrum
trading and the review of existing spectrum trading designs. Then, it
presents a novel CRN architecture for spectrum trading considering
spectrum trading's economic features and wireless nature. Under this
network architecture, it extends current single-hop per-user based
spectrum trading design into a multi-hop transmission opportunity based
one, and further into a session based one, while having economic
properties guaranteed.
This SpringerBrief not only provides a good review of current spectrum
trading designs, it also touches on the cutting-edge interdisciplinary
spectrum trading research on disparate fields of modeling, network
architecture design, optimization theories, statistics, and economic
theories. Advanced-level students studying computer science, electrical
and computer engineering and economics, wireless network planners, and
wireless spectrum engineers will find this book a useful tool.