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Channel assembling and resource allocation in multichannel spectrum sharing wireless networks
Submitted in fulfilment of the academic requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Engineering, in the School of Electrical and
Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment,
at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2017The continuous evolution of wireless communications technologies has increasingly imposed a
burden on the use of radio spectrum. Due to the proliferation of new wireless networks applications
and services, the radio spectrum is getting saturated and becoming a limited resource. To a large
extent, spectrum scarcity may be a result of deficient spectrum allocation and management policies,
rather than of the physical shortage of radio frequencies. The conventional static spectrum
allocation has been found to be ineffective, leading to overcrowding and inefficient use. Cognitive
radio (CR) has therefore emerged as an enabling technology that facilitates dynamic spectrum
access (DSA), with a great potential to address the issue of spectrum scarcity and inefficient use.
However, provisioning of reliable and robust communication with seamless operation in cognitive
radio networks (CRNs) is a challenging task. The underlying challenges include development of
non-intrusive dynamic resource allocation (DRA) and optimization techniques.
The main focus of this thesis is development of adaptive channel assembling (ChA) and DRA
schemes, with the aim to maximize performance of secondary user (SU) nodes in CRNs, without
degrading performance of primary user (PU) nodes in a primary network (PN). The key objectives
are therefore four-fold. Firstly, to optimize ChA and DRA schemes in overlay CRNs. Secondly, to
develop analytical models for quantifying performance of ChA schemes over fading channels in
overlay CRNs. Thirdly, to extend the overlay ChA schemes into hybrid overlay and underlay
architectures, subject to power control and interference mitigation; and finally, to extend the
adaptive ChA and DRA schemes for multiuser multichannel access CRNs.
Performance analysis and evaluation of the developed ChA and DRA is presented, mainly through
extensive simulations and analytical models. Further, the cross validation has been performed
between simulations and analytical results to confirm the accuracy and preciseness of the novel
analytical models developed in this thesis. In general, the presented results demonstrate improved
performance of SU nodes in terms of capacity, collision probability, outage probability and forced
termination probability when employing the adaptive ChA and DRA in CRNs.CK201
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In cognitive radio networks (CRN), secondary users (SUs) are required to detect the presence of the licensed users, known as primary users (PUs), and to find spectrum holes for opportunistic spectrum access without causing harmful interference to PUs. However, due to complicated data processing, non-real-Time information exchange and limited memory, SUs often suffer from imperfect sensing and unreliable spectrum access. Cloud computing can solve this problem by allowing the data to be stored and processed in a shared environment. Furthermore, the information from a massive number of SUs allows for more comprehensive information exchanges to assist the
Robust Sum MSE Optimization for Downlink Multiuser MIMO Systems with Arbitrary Power Constraint: Generalized Duality Approach
This paper considers linear minimum meansquare- error (MMSE) transceiver
design problems for downlink multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
systems where imperfect channel state information is available at the base
station (BS) and mobile stations (MSs). We examine robust sum mean-square-error
(MSE) minimization problems. The problems are examined for the generalized
scenario where the power constraint is per BS, per BS antenna, per user or per
symbol, and the noise vector of each MS is a zero-mean circularly symmetric
complex Gaussian random variable with arbitrary covariance matrix. For each of
these problems, we propose a novel duality based iterative solution. Each of
these problems is solved as follows. First, we establish a novel sum average
meansquare- error (AMSE) duality. Second, we formulate the power allocation
part of the problem in the downlink channel as a Geometric Program (GP). Third,
using the duality result and the solution of GP, we utilize alternating
optimization technique to solve the original downlink problem. To solve robust
sum MSE minimization constrained with per BS antenna and per BS power problems,
we have established novel downlink-uplink duality. On the other hand, to solve
robust sum MSE minimization constrained with per user and per symbol power
problems, we have established novel downlink-interference duality. For the
total BS power constrained robust sum MSE minimization problem, the current
duality is established by modifying the constraint function of the dual uplink
channel problem. And, for the robust sum MSE minimization with per BS antenna
and per user (symbol) power constraint problems, our duality are established by
formulating the noise covariance matrices of the uplink and interference
channels as fixed point functions, respectively.Comment: IEEE TSP Journa
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