• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.10-17
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• 2014

This work investigates two important performance metrics of underlay cooperative cognitive radio (CR) networks: Interference cumulative distribution function of licensed users and outage probability of unlicensed users. These metrics are thoroughly analyzed in realistic operating conditions such as imperfect fading channel information and strict transmit power constraint, which satisfies interference power constraint and maximum transmit power constraint, over Nakagami-m fading channels. Novel closed-form expressions are derived and subsequently validated extensively through comparisons with respective results from computer simulations. The proposed expressions are rather long but straightforward to handle both analytically and numerically since they are expressed in terms of well known built-in functions. In addition, the offered results provide the following technical insights: i) Channel information imperfection degrades considerably the performance of both unlicensed network in terms of OP and licensed network in terms of interference levels; ii) underlay cooperative CR networks experience the outage saturation phenomenon; iii) the probability that the interference power constraint is satisfied is relatively low and depends significantly on the corresponding fading severity conditions as well as the channel estimation quality; iv) there exists a critical performance trade-off between unlicensed and licensed networks.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.362-369
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• 2015

This study addresses the effects of channel estimation error and mutual interference between licensed and unlicensed systems on outage performance of reactive relay selection in unlicensed systems over independent non-identical (i.n.i) Rayleigh fading channels and under both the maximum transmit power constraint and primary outage constraint. Toward this end, power allocation for unlicensed users is first recommended to satisfy both constraints and account for channel estimation error and mutual interference. Then, we derive an exact closed-form outage probability representation for unlicensed systems to quickly evaluate this effect in key operation parameters. Various results corroborate the derived expressions and provide useful insights into system performance.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.99-103
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• 2010

Motivated by recent works on spectrum-sharing systems, this paper investigates the effects of transmit diversity on the peak interference power limited cognitive radio(CR) networks. In particular, we derive the ergodic and outage capacities of a spectrum-sharing system with multiple transmit-antennas. To derive the capacities, peak interference power constraint is imposed to protect the primary receiver. In a CR transmitter and receiver pair with multiple antennas at the transmitter side, the allowable transmit power is distributed over the transmit-antennas to achieve transmit diversity at the receiver. We investigate the effect of this power distribution when a peak interference power constraint is imposed to protect the primary receiver. We show that the transmit diversity does not improve the ergodic capacity compared to the single-antenna system. On the other hand, the transmit diversity significantly improves the outage capacity. For example, two transmit-antennas improve the outage capacity 10 times compared to the single-antenna with a 0 dB interference constraint.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.456-462
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• 2011

This paper investigates the outage behavior of peak interference power limited cognitive radio (CR) networks with multiple transmit antennas. In CR-multi-input single-output (MISO) channel, the total transmit power is distributed over the transmitantennas. First, we use the orthogonal space-time codes (STC) to achieve the transmit diversity at CR-receiver (rx) and investigate the effect of the power distribution on the interference power received at the primary-receiver (P-rx). Then, we investigate the transmit antenna selection (TAS) scheme in which the CR system selects the best transmit antenna and allocates all the power to the selected best antenna. Two transmit antenna selection strategies are proposed depending on if feedback channel is available or not. We derive the closed form expressions of outage probability and outage capacity of all schemes with arbitrary number of transmit-antennas. We show that the proposed schemes significantly improve the outage capacity over the single antenna systems in Rayleigh fading environment. We also show that TAS based scheme outperforms the STC based scheme when peak interference power constraint is imposed on the P-rx only if a feedback channel from CR-rx to CR-transmitter is available.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권7호
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• pp.2338-2353
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• 2015

In this paper, the optimal power allocation algorithm that minimizes the aggregate bit error rate (BER) of the secondary user (SU) in a downlink orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based cognitive radio (CR) system, while subjecting to the interference power constraint and the transmit power constraint, is investigated under the assumption that the instantaneous channel state information (CSI) of the interference links between the secondary transmitter and the primary receiver, and between the primary transmitter and the secondary receiver is perfectly known. Besides, a suboptimal algorithm with less complexity is also proposed. In order to deal with more practical situations, we further assume that only the channel distribution information (CDI) of the interference links is available and propose heuristic power allocation algorithms based on bisection search method to minimize the aggregate BER under the interference outage constraint and the transmit power constraint. Simulation results are presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.18-34
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• 2014

It is widely believed that cognitive radio (CR) networks have an opportunistic nature and therefore can only support best-effort traffics without quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees. In this paper, we propose a centralized CR network that adopts interference averaging techniques to support QoS guaranteed traffics under interference outage constraints. In such a CR network, a CR user adaptively adjusts its transmit power to compensate for the channel loss, thereby keeping the receive signal power at the CR base station (BS) at a constant level. The closed-form system capacity of such a CR network is analyzed and derived for a single cell with one CR BS and multiple CR users, taking into account various key factors such as interference outage constraints, channel fading, cell radius, and locations of primary users. The accuracy of the theoretical results is validated by Monte Carlo simulations. Numerical and simulation results show promising capacity potential for deploying QoS-guaranteed CR networks in frequency bands with fixed primary receivers. Our work can provide theoretical guidelines for the strategic planning of centralized CR networks.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.45-50
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 사용자 모바일 장치를 중계기로 사용할 경우 발생할 수 있는 간섭 제약에 대해 정의하였다. 또한, 사용자 모바일 장치에서 발생하는 간섭을 완화하기위해 장치 선택 및 전력 할당 기법을 적용하였다. 제안된 전송 알고리즘을 적용할 경우 간섭을 완화시킬 수 있다. 또한, 간섭이 약한 채널에 적용할 경우 통신망 과부하 문제를 해결 할 수 있다. 따라서 추가적인 중계기 설치 없이 사용자 모바일 장치만으로 네트워크 용량을 증가시킬 수 있다. 마지막 으로, 제안한 프로토콜을 레일리 페이딩 환경에서 비트오류율(Bit Error Rate)과 아웃티지 확률(Outage Probability)을 통해 시스템의 성능을 평가한다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제49권8호
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• pp.46-51
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 무선 인지 중계 네트워크에서의 파워 할당 기법에 대해서 연구한다. 무선 인지 중계 네트워크는 주파수 공유를 통해서 주파수 효율성을 높일 뿐만 아니라 중계기의 사용으로 시스템의 커버리지를 확장시킬 수 있는 장점을 가진다. 그러나 기존의 연구들에서는 주파수 공유를 위해서 이차 사용자가 일차 사용자 사이와의 채널 정보를 완벽하게 알아야 한다고 가정한다. 그러나 이 채널 정보는 시변 특성 또는 피드백 지연 등의 이유로 이차 사용자가 불완전한 채널 정보를 얻게 된다. 이러한 불완전한 채널 정보로 인하여 결국 이차 사용자는 간섭 제약을 위반하게 되고 주파수를 공유할 수 없게 된다. 따라서 이 문제를 극복하기 위해서 본 논문에서는 일차 사용자의 허용 가능한 outage확률 간섭 제약을 만족하는 이차 사용자의 파워 할당 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 파워 할당 기법은 순시적인 채널 정보를 사용하지 않기 때문에, 이차 사용자의 피드백 부담을 덜어줄 뿐만 아니라 지연된(outdated) 채널 환경에 관계없이 간섭 제약을 만족시키는 장점을 가진다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권12호
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• pp.3018-3036
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• 2013

In this paper, we investigate power allocation scheme and outage performance for a physical-layer network coding (PNC) relay based secondary user (SU) communication in cognitive multi-antenna relay networks (CMRNs), in which two secondary transceivers exchange their information via a multi-antenna relay using PNC protocol. We propose an optimal energy-efficient power allocation (OE-PA) scheme to minimize total energy consumption per bit under the sum rate constraint and interference power threshold (IPT) constraints. A closed-form solution for optimal allocation of transmit power among the SU nodes, as well as the outage probability of the cognitive relay system, are then derived analytically and confirmed by numerical results. Numerical simulations demonstrate the PNC protocol has superiority in energy efficiency performance over conventional direct transmission protocol and Four-Time-Slot (4TS) Decode-and-Forward (DF) relay protocol, and the proposed system has the optimal outage performance when the relay is located at the center of two secondary transceivers.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.157-165
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• 2009

In this paper, we investigate a dynamic spectrum sharing problem for the centralized uplink cognitive radio networks using orthogonal frequency division multiple access. We formulate a large-scale joint rate and power allocation as an optimization problem under quality of service constraint for secondary users and interference constraint for primary users. We also suggest admission control to nd a feasible solution to the optimization problem. To implement the resource allocation on a large-scale, we introduce a notion of using the conservative factors $\alpha$ and $\beta$ depending on the outage and violation probabilities. Since estimating instantaneous channel gains is costly and requires high complexity, the proposed algorithm pursues a practical and implementation-friendly resource allocation. Simulation results demonstrate that the large-scale joint rate and power allocation incurs a slight loss in system throughput over the instantaneous one, but it achieves lower complexity with less sensitivity to variations in shadowing statistics.