John Cosmas

John Cosmas received his BEng in Electronic Engineering at Liverpool University, UK in 1978 and a PhD in Image Processing at Imperial College, University of London, UK in 1986. He worked for five years in industry first with Tube Investments and then with Fairchild Camera and Instruments. After completing his PhD, he worked for 13 years as a lecturer in digital systems and telecommunications at Queen Mary College, University of London. Since 1999, he has worked for Brunel University, first as a reader and then in 2002 as a Professor of multimedia systems. He is currently the director of the Wireless Networks and Communications Centre (WNCC) at Brunel University, London, UK. His current research interests are communications systems, and mobile systems. Prof. Cosmas currently serves as associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. He also contributes to the Digital TV Group’s “Mobile Applications” sub-group and to the Digital Video Broadcast’s Technical Module: Converged Broadcast and Mobile Services (CBMS).

Publications

Self-Organization and Green Applications in Cognitive Radio Networks
Self-Organization and Green Applications in Cognitive Radio Networks
Anwer Al-Dulaimi, John Cosmas, Abbas Mohammed. © 2013. 355 pages.
Self-Organization and Green Applications in Cognitive Radio Networks provides recent research on the developments of efficient cognitive network topology. The most current...
Technical Challenges in 4G Cognitive Femtocell Systems
Technical Challenges in 4G Cognitive Femtocell Systems
Saba Al-Rubaye, John Cosmas. © 2013. 25 pages.
This chapter studies the application of femtocells as part of the future cognitive 4G networks. It starts with a demonstration for the evolution of cellular and wireless...
Adaptive Coexistence between Cognitive and Fiber Networks
Adaptive Coexistence between Cognitive and Fiber Networks
Anwer Al-Dulaimi, Saba Al-Rubaye, John Cosmas. © 2012. 26 pages.
Cognitive radios are proposed as secondary users of spectrum to provision for the growth in mobile users and services. However, the dynamic changes in the wireless environment...
Spectrum Handover Strategies for Cognitive Femtocell Networks
Spectrum Handover Strategies for Cognitive Femtocell Networks
Saba Al-Rubaye, Anwer Al-Dulaimi, John Cosmas. © 2012. 18 pages.
Cognitive femtocell is a promising technology for the next generation wireless networks to improve the efficiency of spectrum utilization, coverage, and to attain higher data...