This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks, CROWNCOM 2016, held in Grenoble, France, May 30 - April 1, 2016. The 62 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and cover the evolution of cognitive radio technology pertaining to 5G networks. The papers are clustered to topics on dynamic spectrum access/management, networking protocols for CR, modeling and theory, HW architecture and implementations, next generation of cognitive networks, standards and business models, emerging applications for cognitive networks.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks, CROWNCOM 2017, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2017. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and cover the evolution of cognitive radio technology pertaining to 5G networks. The papers are clustered to topics on spectrum management; network management; trials, test beds, and tools; PHY and sensing; spectrum management.