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When a pair of SUs wants to communicate over the CRN, they need to converge simultaneously on one of the vacant channels, in a process known as rendezvous. In this work, we attempt to reduce the rendezvous time for SUs executing the well-known enhanced jump-stay (EJS) channel hopping procedure. We achieve this by modifying EJS in order to search the vacant spectrum around a specific favorite channel, instead of hopping across the whole spectrum. Moreover, the search process is carefully designed in order to accommodate the dynamic nature of CRNs, where PUs repeatedly become active and inactive, resulting in disturbances to the rendezvous process. A main feature of our proposed technique, named dynamic jump-stay (DJS), is that the SUs do not need any prior coordination over a common control channel (CCC), thereby allowing for scalable and more robust distributed CRNs. 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