We formulate a scheduling problem that takes into account different hardware delays experienced by the secondary users

(SUs) in a centralized cognitive radio network (CRN) while switching to different frequency bands. We propose a polynomial-time

suboptimal algorithm to address our formulated scheduling problem. We evaluate the impact of varying switching delay, number of

frequencies, and number of SUs. Our simulation results indicate that our proposed algorithm is robust to changes in the hardware

spectrum switching delay and its performance is very close to its upper bound. We also compare our proposed method with the

corresponding constant switching delay-based algorithm and demonstrate that our suggestion of taking into account the different

hardware delays while switching to different frequency bands is essential for scheduling in CRNs.