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Optimal Selection of Spectrum Sensing Duration for an Energy Harvesting Cognitive Radio
In this paper, we consider a time-slotted cognitive radio (CR) setting with
buffered and energy harvesting primary and CR users. At the beginning of each
time slot, the CR user probabilistically chooses the spectrum sensing duration
from a predefined set. If the primary user (PU) is sensed to be inactive, the
CR user accesses the channel immediately. The CR user optimizes the sensing
duration probabilities in order to maximize its mean data service rate with
constraints on the stability of the primary and cognitive queues. The
optimization problem is split into two subproblems. The first is a
linear-fractional program, and the other is a linear program. Both subproblems
can be solved efficiently.Comment: Accepted in GLOBECOM 201
Optimal Random Access and Random Spectrum Sensing for an Energy Harvesting Cognitive Radio
We consider a secondary user with energy harvesting capability. We design
access schemes for the secondary user which incorporate random spectrum sensing
and random access, and which make use of the primary automatic repeat request
(ARQ) feedback. The sensing and access probabilities are obtained such that the
secondary throughput is maximized under the constraints that both the primary
and secondary queues are stable and that the primary queueing delay is kept
lower than a specified value needed to guarantee a certain quality of service
(QoS) for the primary user. We consider spectrum sensing errors and assume
multipacket reception (MPR) capabilities. Numerical results are presented to
show the enhanced performance of our proposed system over a random access
system, and to demonstrate the benefit of leveraging the primary feedback.Comment: in WiMob 201
Band Allocation for Cognitive Radios with Buffered Primary and Secondary Users
In this paper, we study band allocation of buffered secondary
users (SUs) to orthogonal primary licensed bands, where each
primary band is assigned to one primary user (PU). Each SU is assigned to one
of the available primary bands with a certain probability designed to satisfy
some specified quality of service (QoS) requirements for the SUs. In the
proposed system, only one SU is assigned to a particular band. The optimization
problem used to obtain the stability region's envelope (closure) is shown to be
a linear program. We compare the stability region of the proposed system with
that of a system where each SU chooses a band randomly with some assignment
probability. We also compare with a fixed (deterministic) assignment system,
where only one SU is assigned to one of the primary bands all the time. We
prove the advantage of the proposed system over the other systems.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
Optimal Spectrum Access for Cognitive Radios
In this paper, we investigate a time-slotted cognitive setting with buffered
primary and secondary users. In order to alleviate the negative effects of
misdetection and false alarm probabilities, a novel design of spectrum access
mechanism is proposed. We propose two schemes. First, the SU senses primary
channel to exploit the periods of silence, if the PU is declared to be idle,
the SU randomly accesses the channel with some access probability .
Second, in addition to accessing the channel if the PU is idle, the SU possibly
accesses the channel if it is declared to be busy with some access probability
. The access probabilities as function of the misdetection, false alarm
and average primary arrival rate are obtained via solving an optimization
problem designed to maximize the secondary service rate given a constraint on
primary queue stability. In addition, we propose a variable sensing duration
schemes where the SU optimizes over the optimal sensing time to achieve the
maximum stable throughput of the network. The results reveal the performance
gains of the proposed schemes over the conventional sensing scheme. We propose
a method to estimate the mean arrival rate and the outage probability of the PU
based on the primary feedback channel, i.e., acknowledgments (ACKs) and
negative-acknowledgments (NACKs) messages.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1206.615
Optimal Random Access and Random Spectrum Sensing for an Energy Harvesting Cognitive Radio with and without Primary Feedback Leveraging
We consider a secondary user (SU) with energy harvesting capability. We
design access schemes for the SU which incorporate random spectrum sensing and
random access, and which make use of the primary automatic repeat request (ARQ)
feedback. We study two problem-formulations. In the first problem-formulation,
we characterize the stability region of the proposed schemes. The sensing and
access probabilities are obtained such that the secondary throughput is
maximized under the constraints that both the primary and secondary queues are
stable. Whereas in the second problem-formulation, the sensing and access
probabilities are obtained such that the secondary throughput is maximized
under the stability of the primary queue and that the primary queueing delay is
kept lower than a specified value needed to guarantee a certain quality of
service (QoS) for the primary user (PU). We consider spectrum sensing errors
and assume multipacket reception (MPR) capabilities. Numerical results show the
enhanced performance of our proposed systems.Comment: ACCEPTED in EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cognitive Communications.
arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1208.565
To Sense or Not To Sense
A longer sensing time improves the sensing performance; however, with a fixed
frame size, the longer sensing time will reduce the allowable data transmission
time of the secondary user (SU). In this paper, we try to address the tradeoff
between sensing the primary channel for seconds of the time slot
proceeded by randomly accessing it and randomly accessing primary channel
without sensing to avoid wasting seconds in sensing. The SU senses
primary channel to exploit the periods of silence, if the primary user (PU) is
declared to be idle the SU randomly accesses the channel with some access
probability . In addition to randomly accesses the channel if the PU is
sensed to be idle, it possibly accesses it if the channel is declared to be
busy with some access probability . This is because the probability of
false alarm and misdetection cause significant secondary throughput degradation
and affect the PU QoS. We propose variable sensing duration schemes where the
SU optimizes over the optimal sensing time to achieve the maximum stable
throughput for both primary and secondary queues. The results reveal the
performance gains of the proposed schemes over the conventional sensing scheme,
i.e., the SU senses the primary channel for seconds and accesses with
probability 1 if the PU is declared to be idle. Also, the proposed schemes
overcome random access without sensing scheme.
The theoretical and numerical results show that pairs of misdetection and
false alarm probabilities may exist such that sensing the primary channel for
very small duration overcomes sensing it for large portion of the time slot. In
addition, for certain average arrival rate to the primary queue pairs of
misdetection and false alarm probabilities may exist such that the random
access without sensing overcomes the random access with long sensing duration
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