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Throughput analysis for cognitive radio networks with multiple primary users and imperfect spectrum sensing
In cognitive radio networks, the licensed frequency bands of the primary users (PUs) are available to the secondary user (SU) provided that they do not cause significant interference to the PUs. In this study, the authors analysed the normalised throughput of the SU with multiple PUs coexisting under any frequency division multiple access communication protocol. The authors consider a cognitive radio transmission where the frame structure consists of sensing and data transmission slots. In order to achieve the maximum normalised throughput of the SU and control the interference level to the legal PUs, the optimal frame length of the SU is found via simulation. In this context, a new analytical formula has been expressed for the achievable normalised throughput of SU with multiple PUs under prefect and imperfect spectrum sensing scenarios. Moreover, the impact of imperfect sensing, variable frame length of SU and the variable PU traffic loads, on the normalised throughput has been critically investigated. It has been shown that the analytical and simulation results are in perfect agreement. The authors analytical results are much useful to determine how to select the frame duration length subject to the parameters of cognitive radio network, such as network traffic load, achievable sensing accuracy and number of coexisting PUs
Interference Mitigation for Cognitive Radio MIMO Systems Based on Practical Precoding
In this paper, we propose two subspace-projection-based precoding schemes,
namely, full-projection (FP)- and partial-projection (PP)-based precoding, for
a cognitive radio multiple-input multiple-output (CR-MIMO) network to mitigate
its interference to a primary time-division-duplexing (TDD) system. The
proposed precoding schemes are capable of estimating interference channels
between CR and primary networks, and incorporating the interference from the
primary to the CR system into CR precoding via a novel sensing approach. Then,
the CR performance and resulting interference of the proposed precoding schemes
are analyzed and evaluated. By fully projecting the CR transmission onto a null
space of the interference channels, the FP-based precoding scheme can
effectively avoid interfering the primary system with boosted CR throughput.
While, the PP-based scheme is able to further improve the CR throughput by
partially projecting its transmission onto the null space.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, submitted to the IEEE Trans. Wireless
Communications in April 201
On the Performance of Spectrum Sensing Algorithms using Multiple Antennas
In recent years, some spectrum sensing algorithms using multiple antennas,
such as the eigenvalue based detection (EBD), have attracted a lot of
attention. In this paper, we are interested in deriving the asymptotic
distributions of the test statistics of the EBD algorithms. Two EBD algorithms
using sample covariance matrices are considered: maximum eigenvalue detection
(MED) and condition number detection (CND). The earlier studies usually assume
that the number of antennas (K) and the number of samples (N) are both large,
thus random matrix theory (RMT) can be used to derive the asymptotic
distributions of the maximum and minimum eigenvalues of the sample covariance
matrices. While assuming the number of antennas being large simplifies the
derivations, in practice, the number of antennas equipped at a single secondary
user is usually small, say 2 or 3, and once designed, this antenna number is
fixed. Thus in this paper, our objective is to derive the asymptotic
distributions of the eigenvalues and condition numbers of the sample covariance
matrices for any fixed K but large N, from which the probability of detection
and probability of false alarm can be obtained. The proposed methodology can
also be used to analyze the performance of other EBD algorithms. Finally,
computer simulations are presented to validate the accuracy of the derived
results.Comment: IEEE GlobeCom 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
Spectral and Energy Efficiency in Cognitive Radio Systems with Unslotted Primary Users and Sensing Uncertainty
This paper studies energy efficiency (EE) and average throughput maximization
for cognitive radio systems in the presence of unslotted primary users. It is
assumed that primary user activity follows an ON-OFF alternating renewal
process. Secondary users first sense the channel possibly with errors in the
form of miss detections and false alarms, and then start the data transmission
only if no primary user activity is detected. The secondary user transmission
is subject to constraints on collision duration ratio, which is defined as the
ratio of average collision duration to transmission duration. In this setting,
the optimal power control policy which maximizes the EE of the secondary users
or maximizes the average throughput while satisfying a minimum required EE
under average/peak transmit power and average interference power constraints
are derived. Subsequently, low-complexity algorithms for jointly determining
the optimal power level and frame duration are proposed. The impact of
probabilities of detection and false alarm, transmit and interference power
constraints on the EE, average throughput of the secondary users, optimal
transmission power, and the collisions with primary user transmissions are
evaluated. In addition, some important properties of the collision duration
ratio are investigated. The tradeoff between the EE and average throughput
under imperfect sensing decisions and different primary user traffic are
further analyzed.Comment: This paper is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on
Communication
Performance analyses and design for cognitive radios
Cognitive radio has been proposed as a promising solution to the conflict between
the spectrum scarcity and spectrum under-utilization. As the demand increases for
wireless communication services, cognitive radio technology attracts huge attention
from both commercial industries and academic researches. The purpose of this thesis
is to provide an analytical evaluation of the cognitive radio system performance
while taking into consideration of some realistic conditions. Several problems are
investigated in this thesis. First, by adopting a dynamic primary user traffic model
with one primary user occupancy status change and exponentially distributed channel
holding times, its effect on the cognitive radio system performance is evaluated.
In the evaluation, the sensing-throughput tradeoff of the cognitive radio is used
as the examination criteria, while energy detection is applied during the spectrum
sensing. The thesis then takes the investigation further by establishing a primary
user multiple changes traffic model which considers multiple primary user occupancy
status changes and any reasonable channel holding time distributions. The effect of
the primary user multiple changes traffic on the spectrum sensing performance is investigated
while the channel holding times are assumed to be exponential, Gamma,
Erlang and log-normal distributed. The analytical evaluation of cognitive radio is
also carried out from the secondary user transmission perspective, where the performance of the adaptive modulation in cognitive radio system is investigated. The
effect of the cognitive radio distinctive features on the performance of both the adaptive
continuous rate scheme and the adaptive discrete rate scheme of the adaptive
modulation are examined. The BER performance and the link spectral efficiency
performance are derived for both schemes.
A novel frame structure where the spectrum sensing is performed by using the
recovered received secondary frames is also evaluated in this thesis. A realistic
scenario which considers the secondary user signal decoding errors is examined for
the novel structure, while an ideal upper bound performance is given when the
decoding process is assumed perfect. By extending the system to include multiple
consecutive secondary frames, the performance of the novel structure is compared
to the performance of the traditional frame structure proposed by the IEEE 802.22
WRAN standard. The effect of the primary user multiple changes traffic is also
examined for the novel structure.
Several major findings are made from the analytical evaluations presented in
this thesis. Through numerical examinations, it was shown that, first, the dynamic
primary user traffic degrades the performance of cognitive radio systems. Second,
the degree of the performance degradation of the cognitive radio systems is related
to the number of primary user status changes and the primary user traffic intensity.
Different primary user channel holding times distributions also lead to different
sensitivities of the system performance to the primary user traffic. Third, cognitive
radio distinctive features degrades the performance of the adaptive modulation.
When the novel structure is applied for cognitive radio, a higher secondary achievable
throughput can be obtained with a limited saturation threshold
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