Dynamic Spectrum Access and Management in Cognitive Radio Networks

Ekram Hossain is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Victoria, Canada, in 2000. His current research interests include design, analysis, and optimization of wireless/mobile communication networks, cognitive radio systems, distributed systems and mobile computing. Dr Hossain serves as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Wireless Communications, and several other international journals. He is a registered professional engineer in the province of Manitoba, Canada. Dusit Niyato is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Computer Communications at Nanyang Technical University (NTU), Singapore. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba in 2008. He has published over 60 technical papers, and his current research interests include wireless communications and networking. Zhu Han is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston. He was awarded his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, and worked for a period in industry as an R & D Engineer for JDSD. His research interests include wireless resource allocation and management, wireless communications and networking, game theory, and wireless multimedia.