• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.260-279
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• 2015

In this paper, we investigate physical layer security for multiple decode-and-forward (DF) relaying underlay cognitive radio networks (CRNs) with fixed transmit power at the secondary network against passive eavesdropping attacks. We propose a simple relay selection scheme to improve wireless transmission security based on the instantaneous channel information of all legitimate users and the statistical information about the eavesdropper channels. The closed-form expressions of the probability of non-zero secrecy capacity and the secrecy outage probability (SOP) are derived over independent and non-identically distributed Rayleigh fading environments. Furthermore, we conduct the asymptotic analysis to evaluate the secrecy diversity order performance and prove that full diversity is achieved by using the proposed relay selection. Finally, numerical results are presented to verify the theoretical analysis and depict that primary interference constrain has a significant impact on the secure performance and a proper transmit power for the second transmitters is preferred to be energy-efficient and improve the secure performance.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권7호
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• pp.2350-2364
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• 2014

This paper addresses the problem of resource allocation in amplify-and-forward (AF) relayed OFDM based cognitive radio networks (CRNs). The purpose of resource allocation is to maximize the overall throughput, while satisfying the constraints on the individual power and the interference induced to the primary users (PUs). Additionally, different from the conventional resource allocation problem, the rate-guarantee constraints of the subcarriers are considered. We formulate the problem as a mixed integer programming task and adopt the dual decomposition technique to obtain an asymptotically optimal power allocation, subcarrier pairing and relay selection. Moreover, we further design a suboptimal algorithm that sacrifices little on performance but could significantly reduce computational complexity. Numerical simulation results confirm the optimality of the proposed algorithms and demonstrate the impact of the different constraints.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권12호
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• pp.3003-3017
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• 2013

In this paper, we investigate the outage performance of a cognitive relay network. We consider mutual interference in an independent, non-identically distributed Nakagmai-m fading environment. We first derive the close-form outage probability expression, which provides an efficient means to evaluate the effects of several parameters. This allows us to study the impact of several parameters on the network's performance. We then derive the asymptotic expression and reveal that the diversity order is strictly determined by the fading severity of the cognitive system. It is not affected by the primary network. Moreover, the primary network only affects the coding gain of the cognitive system. Finally, Monte Carlo simulations are provided, which corroborate the analytical results.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.9-15
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• 2018

This paper proposes an energy efficient adaptive relay station ON/OFF scheme with different frequency reuse factors (FRFs) to enhance the system throughput and reduce the transmission energy consumption for the transparent mode of 2-hop cellular relay networks (CRNs) based on orthogonal frequency division multiple access and time division duplex. In the proposed scheme, the base station turns on or off the relay stations (RSs) when they are overutilized and undertuilized based on the traffic density of the cell coverage, respectively. Through the simulation results, we show that the proposed scheme outperforms the conventional CRN in terms of the energy consumption with the same system throughput. Further, in order to increase the system throughput with low energy consumption, the best way is FRF 1 when the number of operating RSs is up to 4 and FRF 2 otherwise.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.38-44
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• 2013

This paper proposes a new dynamic spectrum access (DSA) algorithm for cognitive radio networks. Once initialized, this algorithm works without the need of coordination overhead and hence can be used when no control channel is available. Secondary user (SU) lists and predetermined access control are used in this algorithm. We analyze the probability of no SU collision with primary user and the throughput of our proposed algorithm. Extensive simulations show that our algorithm outperforms the existing DSA algorithm in terms of both the aggregate throughput and the traffic distribution fairness. Furthermore, the validity of our analysis is confirmed by simulation results.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권9호
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• pp.3004-3015
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• 2014

This letter proposes an efficient joint resource allocation scheme for OFDM-based cooperative cognitive radio networks (CRNs) under various practical limitations. Compared with those traditional approaches, which guarantee the transmission rates of cognitive users, the proposed scheme ensures that cognitive users are maintained in proportion to the predefined target rates. Numerical simulation shows that the proposed scheme can achieve a reasonable tradeoff between performance and computational complexity.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2012

무선인지 네트워크에서 비면허 사용자는 면허 스펙트럼 대역을 감지하여 가회가 있을 때마다 면허 사용자에 간섭을 일으키지 않고 매체에 접근한다. 특히 애드혹 네트워크에서는 MAC 계층이 비면허 사용자들간 스펙트럼 접근을 조정하는 중요한 역할을 수행한다. 이에 따라 최근 많은 MAC 프로토콜이 연구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 무선인지 애드혹 네트워크에서의 MAC 프로토콜을 비교 분석한다. 먼저 프로토콜들을 공통 제어 채널을 기준으로 분류하고 각 종류별 주요 프로토콜을 분석한다. 그리고 나서 프로토콜들을 고유 특성과 성능 측면에서 정성적으로 비교한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권10호
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• pp.2455-2472
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• 2012

Although underlay spectrum sharing has been shown as a promising technique to promote the spectrum utilization in cognitive radio networks (CRNs), it may suffer bad secondary performance due to the strict power constraints imposed at secondary systems and the interference from primary systems. In this paper, we propose a two-phase based cooperative transmission protocol with the interference cancellation (IC) and best-relay selection to improve the secondary performance in underlay models under stringent power constraints while ensuring the primary quality-of-service (QoS). In the proposed protocol, IC is employed at both the secondary relays and the secondary destination, where the IC-based best-relay selection and cooperative relaying schemes are well developed to reduce the interference from primary systems. The closed-form expression of secondary outage probability is derived for the proposed protocol over Rayleigh fading channels. Simulation results show that, with a guaranteed primary outage probability, the proposed protocol can achieve not only lower secondary outage probability but also higher secondary diversity order than the traditional underlay case.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.73-82
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• 2016

In cognitive radio networks (CRNs), the performance of the transmission control protocol (TCP) at the secondary user (SU) severely drops due to the mistrigger of congestion control. A long disruption is caused by the transmission of primary user, leading to the mistrigger. In this paper, we propose a cross-layer approach, called a CR-aware scheme that enhances TCP performance at the SU. The scheme is a sender side addition to the standard TCP (i.e., TCP-NewReno), and utilizes an explicit cross-layer signal delivered from a physical (or link) layer and the signal gives an indication of detecting the primary transmission (i.e., transmission of the primary user). We evaluated our scheme by implementing it onto a software radio platform, the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP), where many parts of lower layer operations (i.e., operations in a link or physical layer) run as user processes. In our implementation, we ran our CR-aware scheme over IEEE 802.15.4. Furthermore, for the purpose of comparison, we implemented a selective ACK-based local recovery scheme that helps TCP isolate congestive loss from a random loss in a wireless section.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39B권11호
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• pp.803-809
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 면허 사용자와 감청 사용자가 존재하는 인지무선 네트워크에서 릴레이 선택 기능을 이용한 물리 계층 보안 시스템을 제안하고 성능을 분석한다. 먼저 감청에 대한 보안성 확보를 위해 수신기 측에서의 채널 정보를 이용하는 기회적 최적 릴레이 선택 방법과 다중 안테나 다이버지시티를 이용하는 시스템을 제안한다. 이러한 시스템에서 인지무선 네트워크의 보안 outage 확률을 정의하고 수학적으로 정확한 확률 식을 유도한다. 아울러 송신전력에 제한이 없는 경우에 대한 점근적 outage 확률을 구한다. 수치 해석 결과를 제시함으로써 유도한 확률식의 정확성을 검증한다.