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Efficient Resource Allocation Algorithm in Uplink OFDM-Based Cognitive Radio Networks

Omar Abdulghafoor¹, Musbah Shaat², Ibraheem Shayea³, Ahmad Hamood¹, Abdelzahir Abdelmaboud⁴, Ashraf Osman Ibrahim⁵, Fadhil Mukhlif^6,*, Herish Badal¹, Norafida Ithnin⁶, Ali Khadim Lwas⁷

1 Electronic & Telecommunications Engineering Department, The American University of Kurdistan, Duhok, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
2 CTTC, Barcelona, Spain
3 Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
4 Department of Information Systems, King Khalid University, Muhayel Aseer, Saudi Arabia
5 Faculty of Computing and Informatics, University Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
6 Information Assurance and Security Research Group (IASRG), School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia
7 R&D, Ministry of Industry and Minerals, Baghdad, Iraq

* Corresponding Author: Fadhil Mukhlif. Email: