17 research outputs found
Optimal Spectrum Access for a Rechargeable Cognitive Radio User Based on Energy Buffer State
This paper investigates the maximum throughput for a rechargeable secondary
user (SU) sharing the spectrum with a primary user (PU) plugged to a reliable
power supply. The SU maintains a finite energy queue and harvests energy from
natural resources, e.g., solar, wind and acoustic noise. We propose a
probabilistic access strategy by the SU based on the number of packets at its
energy queue. We investigate the effect of the energy arrival rate, the amount
of energy per energy packet, and the capacity of the energy queue on the SU
throughput under fading channels. Results reveal that the proposed access
strategy can enhance the performance of the SU.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1407.726
On Spectrum Sharing Between Energy Harvesting Cognitive Radio Users and Primary Users
This paper investigates the maximum secondary throughput for a rechargeable
secondary user (SU) sharing the spectrum with a primary user (PU) plugged to a
reliable power supply. The SU maintains a finite energy queue and harvests
energy from natural resources and primary radio frequency (RF) transmissions.
We propose a power allocation policy at the PU and analyze its effect on the
throughput of both the PU and SU. Furthermore, we study the impact of the
bursty arrivals at the PU on the energy harvested by the SU from RF
transmissions. Moreover, we investigate the impact of the rate of energy
harvesting from natural resources on the SU throughput. We assume fading
channels and compute exact closed-form expressions for the energy harvested by
the SU under fading. Results reveal that the proposed power allocation policy
along with the implemented RF energy harvesting at the SU enhance the
throughput of both primary and secondary links
Protocol Design and Stability Analysis of Cooperative Cognitive Radio Users
A single cognitive radio transmitter--receiver pair shares the spectrum with
two primary users communicating with their respective receivers. Each primary
user has a local traffic queue, whereas the cognitive user has three queues;
one storing its own traffic while the other two are relaying queues used to
store primary relayed packets admitted from the two primary users. A new
cooperative cognitive medium access control protocol for the described network
is proposed, where the cognitive user exploits the idle periods of the primary
spectrum bands. Traffic arrival to each relaying queue is controlled using a
tuneable admittance factor, while relaying queues service scheduling is
controlled via channel access probabilities assigned to each queue based on the
band of operation. The stability region of the proposed protocol is
characterized shedding light on its maximum expected throughput. Numerical
results demonstrate the performance gains of the proposed cooperative cognitive
protocol.Comment: Accepted in WCNC 201
Maximum Throughput of a Secondary User Cooperating with an Energy-Aware Primary User
This paper proposes a cooperation protocol between a secondary user (SU) and
a primary user (PU) which dedicates a free frequency subband for the SU if
cooperation results in energy saving. Time is slotted and users are equipped
with buffers. Under the proposed protocol, the PU releases portion of its
bandwidth for secondary transmission. Moreover, it assigns a portion of the
time slot duration for the SU to relay primary packets and achieve a higher
successful packet reception probability at the primary receiver. We assume that
the PU has three states: idle, forward, and retransmission states. At each of
these states, the SU accesses the channel with adaptive transmission
parameters. The PU cooperates with the SU if and only if the achievable average
number of transmitted primary packets per joule is higher than the number of
transmitted packets per joule when it operates alone. The numerical results
show the beneficial gains of the proposed cooperative cognitive protocol.Comment: Accepted WiOpt 201
Maximum Throughput of a Cooperative Energy Harvesting Cognitive Radio User
In this paper, we investigate the maximum throughput of a saturated
rechargeable secondary user (SU) sharing the spectrum with a primary user (PU).
The SU harvests energy packets (tokens) from the environment with a certain
harvesting rate. All transmitters are assumed to have data buffers to store the
incoming data packets. In addition to its own traffic buffer, the SU has a
buffer for storing the admitted primary packets for relaying; and a buffer for
storing the energy tokens harvested from the environment. We propose a new
cooperative cognitive relaying protocol that allows the SU to relay a fraction
of the undelivered primary packets. We consider an interference channel model
(or a multipacket reception (MPR) channel model), where concurrent
transmissions can survive from interference with certain probability
characterized by the complement of channel outages. The proposed protocol
exploits the primary queue burstiness and receivers' MPR capability. In
addition, it efficiently expends the secondary energy tokens under the
objective of secondary throughput maximization. Our numerical results show the
benefits of cooperation, receivers' MPR capability, and secondary energy queue
arrival rate on the system performance from a network layer standpoint.Comment: Part of this paper was accepted for publication in PIMRC 201