With the availability of multiple unlicensed spectral bands, and potential cost-based limitations on the capabilities of individual nodes, it is increasingly relevant to study the performance of multichannel wireless networks with channel switching constraints. To this effect, some constraint

,550 patient encounters from the Emergen-cy Department, Inpatient Wards and Outpatient Clinics. Patient and prescribing data were collected. Drugs were classified as off-label or unlicensed based on Australian registration data. A hierarchical system of age, indication, route of administration and dosage

Bluetooth is a low-cost, low-power and unlicensed radio technology with the potential to become an important platform for ad hoc networking. It is based on a number of point-to-point links between a master node and several slaves that collectively form a piconet. Nodes may be members of more than

Abstract—Cognitive radio technology holds great promises in enabling unlicensed operation in licensed bands, to meet the increasing demand for radio spectrum. The new open spectrum operation necessitates novel routing protocols to exploit the available spectrum opportunistically. In this paper we

tubes, the healthcare professional should be aware of legal and professional consequences of altering a drug’s formulation prior to administration and the administration of drugs via an unlicensed route. The aim of this chapter is to consider the legal and professional frameworks that govern

Abstract—Cognitive radio technology holds great promises in enabling unlicensed operation in licensed bands, to meet the increasing demand for radio spectrum. The new open spectrum operation necessitates novel routing protocols to exploit the available spectrum opportunistically. In this paper we

Abstract—Cognitive Radio (CR) mitigates the problem of inefficient spectrum usage. Cognitive radio is based on Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA), through which unlicensed users can use the licensed spectrum band without causing harmful interference to the licensed users. However, this dynamic spectrum

Abstract- Ad-hoc routing protocols with cognitive capabilities have been proposed which solves the problem of spectrum scarcity. It does it by intelligently allowing the unlicensed devices to opportunistically communicate in the available licensed spectrum, while ensuring that the performance

The increased demand on wireless applications, coupled with the current inefficiency in spectrum usage, mandate a new communication paradigm shift from fixed spectrum assignment to dynamic spectrum sharing which can be achieved using the cognitive radio technology. Cognitive radio allows unlicensed

great challenge due to unreliable traditional links and time varying unlicensed CR links. To improve the performance of multi-hop routing, opportunistic routing (OR) has been proposed and investigated extensively. Instead of using a single next hop, OR forwards a packet to an ordered set of candidate