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Exploiting Multi-Antennas for Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks
In cognitive radio (CR) networks, there are scenarios where the secondary
(lower priority) users intend to communicate with each other by
opportunistically utilizing the transmit spectrum originally allocated to the
existing primary (higher priority) users. For such a scenario, a secondary user
usually has to trade off between two conflicting goals at the same time: one is
to maximize its own transmit throughput; and the other is to minimize the
amount of interference it produces at each primary receiver. In this paper, we
study this fundamental tradeoff from an information-theoretic perspective by
characterizing the secondary user's channel capacity under both its own
transmit-power constraint as well as a set of interference-power constraints
each imposed at one of the primary receivers. In particular, this paper
exploits multi-antennas at the secondary transmitter to effectively balance
between spatial multiplexing for the secondary transmission and interference
avoidance at the primary receivers. Convex optimization techniques are used to
design algorithms for the optimal secondary transmit spatial spectrum that
achieves the capacity of the secondary transmission. Suboptimal solutions for
ease of implementation are also presented and their performances are compared
with the optimal solution. Furthermore, algorithms developed for the
single-channel transmission are also extended to the case of multi-channel
transmission whereby the secondary user is able to achieve opportunistic
spectrum sharing via transmit adaptations not only in space, but in time and
frequency domains as well.Comment: Extension of IEEE PIMRC 2007. 35 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to IEEE
Journal of Special Topics in Signal Processing, special issue on Signal
Processing and Networking for Dynamic Spectrum Acces
On the Statistics of Cognitive Radio Capacity in Shadowing and Fast Fading Environments (Journal Version)
In this paper we consider the capacity of the cognitive radio channel in
different fading environments under a low interference regime. First we derive
the probability that the low interference regime holds under shadow fading as
well as Rayleigh and Rician fast fading conditions. We demonstrate that this is
the dominant case, especially in practical cognitive radio deployment
scenarios. The capacity of the cognitive radio channel depends critically on a
power loss parameter, , which governs how much transmit power the
cognitive radio dedicates to relaying the primary message. We derive a simple,
accurate approximation to in Rayleigh and Rician fading environments
which gives considerable insight into system capacity. We also investigate the
effects of system parameters and propagation environment on and the
cognitive radio capacity. In all cases, the use of the approximation is shown
to be extremely accurate.Comment: Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Commun. The conference
version of this paper appears in Proc. IEEE CrownCom, 200
Fundamental Limits of Spectrum Sharing for NOMA-based Cooperative Relaying
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and spectrum sharing (SS) are two
emerging multiple access technologies for efficient spectrum utilization in the
fifth-generation (5G) wireless communications standard. In this paper, we
present a closed-form analysis of the average achievable sum-rate and outage
probability for a NOMA-based cooperative relaying system (CRS) in an underlay
spectrum sharing scenario. We consider a peak interference constraint, where
the interference inflicted by the secondary (unlicensed) network on the
primary-user (licensed) receiver (PU-Rx) should be less than a predetermined
threshold. We show that the CRS-NOMA outperforms the CRS with conventional
orthogonal multiple access (OMA) for large values of peak interference power at
the PU-Rx.Comment: 3 figures, Accepted for presentation in GLOBECOM-NOMAT5G workshop,
Abu Dhabi, 201
Sensing-Throughput Tradeoff for Interweave Cognitive Radio System: A Deployment-Centric Viewpoint
Secondary access to the licensed spectrum is viable only if interference is
avoided at the primary system. In this regard, different paradigms have been
conceptualized in the existing literature. Of these, Interweave Systems (ISs)
that employ spectrum sensing have been widely investigated. Baseline models
investigated in the literature characterize the performance of IS in terms of a
sensing-throughput tradeoff, however, this characterization assumes the
knowledge of the involved channels at the secondary transmitter, which is
unavailable in practice. Motivated by this fact, we establish a novel approach
that incorporates channel estimation in the system model, and consequently
investigate the impact of imperfect channel estimation on the performance of
the IS. More particularly, the variation induced in the detection probability
affects the detector's performance at the secondary transmitter, which may
result in severe interference at the primary users. In this view, we propose to
employ average and outage constraints on the detection probability, in order to
capture the performance of the IS. Our analysis reveals that with an
appropriate choice of the estimation time determined by the proposed model, the
degradation in performance of the IS can be effectively controlled, and
subsequently the achievable secondary throughput can be significantly enhanced.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures, Accepted to be published in IEEE Transactions
on Wireless Communication
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