• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.340-350
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• 2016

The performance of large-scale cognitive radio (CR) networks with secondary users sustained by opportunistically harvesting radio-frequency (RF) energy from nearby primary transmissions is investigated. Using an advanced RF energy harvester, a secondary user is assumed to be able to collect ambient primary RF energy as long as it lies inside the harvesting zone of an active primary transmitter (PT). A variable power (VP) transmission mode is proposed, and an energy-based opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) strategy is considered, under which a secondary transmitter (ST) is allowed to transmit only if its harvested energy is larger than a predefined transmission threshold and it is outside the guard zones of all active PTs. The transmission probability of the STs is derived. The outage probabilities and the throughputs of the primary and the secondary networks, respectively, are characterized. Compared with prior work, the throughput can be increased by as much as 29%. The energy-based OSA strategy can be generally applied to a non-CR setup, where distributed power beacons (PBs) are deployed to power coexisting wireless signal transmitters (WSTs) in a wireless powered sensor network.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.119-125
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• 2016

인지 무선 기술은 보조 사용자가 (SUs) 주 사용자 (PUs)에 간섭을 주지 않고 기회주의적 방식으로 라이선스 스펙트럼을 사용할 수 있는 기술이다. 인지 라디오의 핵심 기술은 스펙트럼 센싱이다. 그러나 인지 무선 센서 네트워크에서 에너지 효율적인 스펙트럼 센싱 기법에 대한 연구는 많지 않다. 본 논문에서는 클러스터 기반의 인지 무선 센서 네트워크를 위한 에너지 효율적인 협력 스펙트럼 센싱 노드 선택 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법에서, 허위 경보 확률 및 에너지 소비를 최적화하기 위하여 클러스터 내 스펙트럼 센싱 노드들의 수를 최소화하게 된다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통하여 본 논문에서 제안한 최적의 스펙트럼 센싱 노드 수를 적용하므로 스펙트럼 센싱 효율성이 향상되었고, 또한 네트워크의 에너지 효율성도 보장된 것을 검증하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.1770-1785
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• 2013

In this paper, a multi-hop transmission protocol based on parallel communication of secondary users (SUs) is proposed. The primary multi-hop network coexists with a set of SUs by cooperative spectrum sharing. The main optimization target of our protocol is the overall performance of the secondary system with the guarantee of the primary outage performance. The energy consumption of the primary system is reduced by the cooperation of SUs. The aim of the primary source is to communicate with the primary destination via a number of primary relays. SUs may serve as extra decode-and-forward relays for the primary network. When an SU acts as a relay for a primary user (PU), some other SUs that satisfy the condition for parallel communication are selected to simultaneously access the primary spectrum for secondary transmissions. For the proposed protocol, two opportunistic routing strategies are proposed, and a search algorithm to select the SUs for parallel communication is described. The throughput of the SUs and the PU is illustrated. Numerical results demonstrate that the average throughput of the SUs is greatly improved, and the end-to-end throughput of the PU is slightly increased in the proposed protocol when there are more than seven SUs.