报告信道传输错误环境下协作感知最优用户数分析

认知无线电网络中多个用户相互协作进行频谱感知能有效提高系统的感知性能,然而当各用户将本地感知信息经无线信道发送至中心控制器时,若因信道衰减等因素出现传输错误又会降低系统性能。该文针对这种网络环境,探索了参与协作的用户数目与系统感知性能的关系,并从授权/认知用户两个角度分别讨论协作感知最优用户数的计算方法。理论分析与仿真结果表明:网络中所有用户均参与协作不一定能获取最优性能;当选取具有较高感知信噪比条件的一定数目的用户进行协作反倒能实现最优,并且该最优用户数与网络的规模成正比,与报告信道传输错误概率成反比。      

多天线感知无线电中的协作频谱感知算法

不同于以往单天线感知用户的频谱感知研究,该文提出多天线情形下基于最优功率分配和协作分集的频谱感知算法。根据信道条件利用奇异值分解(SVD)在每根天线上进行功率注水,并考虑多天线情况下两用户网络协作频谱感知授权用户的判决检测过程,利用基于指数衰减的路径损耗模型,分析多天线感知网络的各态历经容量和检测授权用户的概率及时间。理论分析及仿真结果表明,多天线感知用户通过最优功率分配和协作频谱感知不仅使感知网络具有最大的各态历经容量,同时改善系统的检测性能。     

基于最佳中继选择的协作频谱感知方案研究

 本文提出了一种基于最佳中继的多用户协作频谱感知方案,通过认知无线电网络中多用户间的相互协作,可以获得明显的空间分集增益,从而改善认知用户的检测性能．针对所提出的多用户协作感知方案,在瑞利衰落环境下分析了相应的系统检测概率,同时也理论推导了传统非协作方案的感知性能．根据检测概率的解析式,对非协作方案和多用户协作方案,进行了相应的数值实验和性能比较．与非协作感知方案相比,多用户协作方案能够显著提高主用户的检测概率．此外,随着候选中继用户数目增加,多用户协作方案对主用户检测概率的改善量越加明显．     

衰落信道下基于簇的协作频谱感知分析

在分布式协作频谱感知网络中,认知用户向融合中心上报本地检测的信道是带宽受限的,并且受各种衰落的影响。分析了衰落信道下认知用户通过"与"规则进行融合的协作感知策略,提出了认知用户间为Nakagami信道时基于簇理论的协作感知方案,推导得出了2种方法的检测概率和归一化平均感知比特数。仿真结果表明,基于簇理论的协作感知通过牺牲一定的信令开销得到较好的感知性能。     

基于表决融合的带宽受限的协作频谱感知算法

协作的频谱感知使认知无线电（CR）网络对主用户进行可靠的检测,并避免了对主用户通信的干扰。数据融合是协作的频谱感知的关键技术。但是当协作认知无线电用户较多时,它们向融合中心汇报的感知信息就会占用大量的带宽。本文提出了将表决融合准则与检查策略相结合的协作频谱感知的方法,来减少发往融合中心的平均感知比特数,从而有效节约传输带宽。推导分析了该算法在理想信道和非理想信道中的频谱感知性能,并给出了这两种情况检测概率的闭合式。仿真结果表明,此种基于表决融合准则的检查协作频谱感知算法的性能最优,即在较高的感知性能下有大量的感知比特的节约。      

多天线认知无线电网络多信道联合频谱感知策略

当前,以单天线认知用户组成的认知无线电网络同时协作检测多个信道的分配策略得到了广泛研究,而在认知用户可以灵活选取自身天线进行空间分集接收的条件下,当联合感知多信道时,多天线认知无线电网络如何获取最优的天线分配策略仍有待进一步研究。为解决这一问题,在限制各信道最大虚警概率的前提下,以最小化所有信道漏检概率之和为目标,建立了优化模型,并提出了基于分支定界的算法和基于贪婪思想的启发式算法。前者可以获得最优策略,但复杂度较高,后者以牺牲较小检测性能为代价,明显降低了复杂度,有效实现了检测性能与复杂度的平衡,并且在保护各个信道上主用户免受认知用户干扰层面,一定程度上兼顾了公平性。      

认知系统中多天线协作频谱感知方案

针对认知无线电的核心问题——频谱感知,采用性能好的协作频谱感知,这里研究了认知无线电系统中一种多天线协作频谱感知方案,此方案中的噪声信号和主用户的信号均认为是独立复高斯随机信号。同时,次用户将检测到的信号通过波束成形后传向融合中心,而优化函数为发射功率受限的条件下,最大化全局的检测概率。理论推导和方针结果表明,所提出的方案有效地提高了检查概率,充分发挥了空间分集和多用户分集的优势,普遍提高了系统的感知概率。     

认知无线网络中动态双门限协作频谱感知性能的优化方案

频谱感知作为认知无线电的关键技术,得到广泛深入的研究。其中衡量协作频谱感知性能的主要参数为全局虚警概率和全局漏检概率,它们之和被定义为全局错误概率。本文研究基于双门限能量检测的协作频谱感知性能的优化方案,首先,固定双门限能量检测的检测门限值,对表决融合准则的投票门限进行优化,使得在该能量检测门限值条件下,协作频谱感知的全局错误概率最小;然后在表决融合准则的投票门限取最优值的前提下,对双门限能量检测的检测门限值进行了优化,在不同接收信噪比条件下,最优的检测门限值是动态的,所以要根据信噪比确定最优的检测门限值,使得协作频谱感知的全局错误概率在各信噪比条件下都达到最小值,从而提高了协作频谱感知的性能。仿真结果表明,表决融合准则的投票门限和双门限能量检测的检测门限值取得各自的最优值时,全局错误概率最低,检测性能最好。      

全双工中继协作下的认知MIMO系统吞吐量最大化研究

本文研究了全双工中继协作下的认知MIMO系统的平均吞吐量最大化问题。与传统的中继协作认知无线电系统不同的是,该系统模型中的双工中继节点既能协助认知用户源节点进行多天线频谱感知以提高频谱检测性能,也能解码转发认知用户源节点的发送信号以获得更大的系统吞吐量。为使系统平均吞吐量最大,首先,本文以认知用户能获得的最大平均频谱空洞被发现的概率为目标,对系统的帧结构进行优化以获得最佳的感知时间,接着对多个发送天线进行优化以选择出最佳的发送天线,并推导出了在总的发送功率和对主用户干扰受限条件下的认知用户源节点和双工中继节点的最佳功率分配方案。最后的仿真结果表明本文提出的系统模型和优化方案相比传统的双工等功率分配方案以及单工功率分配方案能够获得更大的系统平均吞吐量。      

基于中继协作的认知无线电性能研究

频谱感知是认知无线电技术的关键。协作频谱感知能够充分利用网络资源,提高网络中认知用户的检测概率,降低认知用户的虚警概率。基于两个认知用户之间的中继协作,研究了协作频谱感知的感知性能与吞吐量的折衷。仿真结果表明：中继协作的频谱感知方法能够使得在充分保证对授权用户不造成干扰即检测概率一定时,能够有效地降低认知用户感知授权用户的虚警概率,缩短＂弱＂认知用户获得最大吞吐量的最优感知时间,提高其最大吞吐量,并提高认知系统的最大吞吐量。     

The optimality of beamforming in uplink multiuser wireless systems

This paper considers the optimal uplink transmission strategy that achieves the sum-capacity in a multiuser multi-antenna wireless system. Assuming an independent identically distributed block-fading model with transmitter channel side information, beamforming for each remote user is shown to be necessary for achieving sum-capacity when there is a large number of users in the system. This result stands even in the case where each user is equipped with a large number of transmit antennas, and it can be readily extended to channels with intersymbol interference if an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing modulation is assumed. This result is obtained by deriving a rank bound on the transmit covariance matrices, and it suggests that all users should cooperate by each user using only a small portion of available dimensions. Based on the result, a suboptimal transmit scheme is proposed for the situation where only partial channel side information is available at each transmitter. Simulations show that the suboptimal scheme is not only able to achieve a sum rate very close to the capacity, but also insensitive to channel estimation error.     

Robust beamforming in cognitive radio

This letter considers the multi-antenna cognitive radio (CR) network, which has a single secondary user (SU) and coexists with a primary network of multiple users. Our objective is to maximize the service probability of the SU, subject to the interference constraints on the primary users (PUs) in the form of probability. Exploiting imperfect channel state information (CSI), with its error modeled by added Gaussian noise, we address the optimization for the beamforming weights at the secondary transmitter. In particular, this letter devises an iterative algorithm that can efficiently obtain the robust optimal beamforming solution. For the case with one PU, we show that a much simpler algorithm based on a closed-form solution for the antenna weights of a given power can be presented. Numerical results reveal that the optimal solution for the constructed problem provides an effective means to tradeoff the performance between the PUs and the SU, bridging the non-robust and worstcase based systems.     

基于部分感知用户协作的多天线频谱检测方案

In this paper, a cooperative spectrum sensing scheme, which is based on cooperation of a certain number of secondary users and cooperative diversity under multi-antenna scenario, is proposed. Under multiantenna scenario, we set a targeted detection probability and optimize the false alarm probability of the network by choosing a certain number of secondary users with the highest primary user’s signal to noise ratio. The detection performance of the network is also evaluated when all the secondary users are cooperating to illustrate the benefits of the proposed scheme as a contrast. In addition, how to choose the detection threshold of the secondary user is analyzed for the purpose of decreasing the average risk. Theory analysis and simulation results show that the optimum false alarm probability can be derived by cooperating a certain number of secondary users rather than all the secondary users and the detection performance of the network can be further improved if secondary users are equipped with multiple antennas. Also, a minimum average risk can be obtained by optimizing the detection threshold.     

Power Allocation with Max–Min and Min–Max Fairness for Cognitive Radio Networks with Imperfect CSI

This paper consider the power allocation strategies in the cognitive radio (CR) system in the presence of channel estimation errors. As the user has different channel condition in CR systems, different amount of power resource is required to meets the QoS request. In order to guarantee the fairness of each CR user, ensure the interference from the primary user and other CR users meet the QoS requirement of the CR user and limit the interference that is caused by CR users on primary user within the range into the level that primary user can tolerate, we proposed some new power allocation schemes. The targets are to minimize the maximum power allocated to CR users, to maximize the minimum signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) among all CR users and to minimize the maximum outage probability over all CR users. The first power allocation scheme can be formulated using Geometric Programming (GP). Since GP problem is equivalent to the convex optimization problem, we can obtain the optimal solutions for the first scheme. The latter two power allocation schemes are not GP problems. We propose iterative algorithms to solve them. Simulation results show that proposed schemes can efficiently guarantee the fairness of CR users under the QoS constraint of the primary user and CR users.     

Performance Evaluation of Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Scheme with Censoring of Cognitive Radios in Rayleigh Fading Channel

In this paper, the performance of cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) with censoring of cognitive radio (CR) users in Rayleigh fading channel is analyzed. More precisely, CR users which employ energy detectors are censored depending on the quality of radio channels between them and a fusion center (FC). Each CR makes a hard decision about primary user (PU) using energy detection and transmits the information to FC using BPSK signaling if that CR user is selected to transmit. A training based channel estimator is used at the FC to estimate the complex Gaussian fading coefficients characterizing the channels between the CR users and the FC. This channel state information on fading coefficients is used for censoring the CR users. Two fusion rules such as majority logic fusion and maximal ratio combining (MRC) fusion rules are applied at the FC for estimating the performance in terms of probability of missed detection (P_m). We develop a simulation test bed for evaluating the performance of CSS scheme. Probability of missed detection has been evaluated for both perfect and imperfect channel estimation for various probabilities of false alarm (P_f), reporting and sensing channel SNR values.     

An optimal cooperative spectrum sensing strategy with exponential primary link traffic

In this paper, we investigate the optimal sensing settings for a cognitive radio (CR) network consisting a number of CR users and a fusion center (FC). Our objective is to maximize the channel utilization under the constraint that the signals from the primary user (PU) are sufficiently protected. We focus on the utilization of the channel in which PUs dynamically enter the network with burst nature. Thus, we apply the average error probability (AEP) as the metric of channel utilization. Moreover, in order to protect the PU signal from being interfered, the missing detection probability is applied as the constraint function. Assuming that counting rules are utilized in the FC, we derive the false alarm probability, the missing detection probability, and the AEP in the maximum a posteriori (MAP) fashion. Then, after proving the monotonic properties of the objective function and the constraint function, we propose an efficient algorithm named Algorithm I that can derive the optimal settings for maximizing the channel utilization. Moreover, a simplified algorithm named Algorithm II is also proposed to minimize the AEP, supposing that perfect synchronization exists between the CR users and the PU. Finally, we show our numerical results and compare our optimal results with those found by exhaustive searches. We conclude that our Algorithm I produces optimal results very close to those found by exhaustive searches. Performance comparison between Algorithms I and II is also provided in terms of the AEP and the probability of missing detection. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Ad hoc认知无线网络的主用户感知定位方案

为了对频谱资源进行合理的运用,在认知无线Ad hoc网络中,各次用户必须准确地对主用户信号进行感知,以防止恶意攻击者发起的模仿授权用户攻击。本文基于对信号的波达方向(DOA)估计,提出了一种存在系统误差下对主用户的感知定位算法,仿真证明,该方案能准确地对主用户信号进行定位;当信道环境恶劣、信噪比较低时,本文通过引入环境系数,提出了一种灵活性较好的协作加权检测策略。该策略中每个次用户都可以做出对主用户信号的最终判决,解决了以往协作感知方案中由于权力过分集中而引起的潜在安全性问题。     

基于分层和模拟退火算法的动态信道分配方案

This paper proposes a dynamic channel allocation scheme based on cognitive radio （CR）. Firstly, the channel probing based on MMSE criterion is implemented, with which the probability distribution of channels in use by the primary user is given. Next, take the distances between the CR users and the primary user as basis to stratify the CR users, among the layers; the simulated annealing （SA） algorithm is used to implement the channel assigmnent. This algorithm differs from the well-known 0-1 matrix based allocation scheme, and keeps a good tradeoff between complexity, capacity as well as the fairness problems. The simulation results show that this algorithm can improve the allocation efficiency effectively.     

A Subcarriers Allocation Scheme for Cognitive Radio Systems Based on Multi-Carrier Modulation

Cognitive radio (CR) is a dynamic spectrum access technology as a solution to spectrum under-utilization problem in some licensed bands. Operating over an exceedingly wide spectrum, CR systems usually adopt multi-carrier modulation (MCM) to implement flexible channelization. Consequently, efficient channel allocation scheme becomes extremely important to an MCM based CR (MCM-CR) system. In this paper, a maximum likelihood detection model is developed to detect the presence and locations of licensed users (LUs) signals in the frequency domain. Performance of the detection model, including the optimal detection region, detection probability and false alarm probability, is analyzed. A one-order two-state Markovian chain model is proposed to predict channel status information. In particular, a novel subcarrier allocation scheme for MCM-CR systems is proposed, taking into account the confidence of channel estimation, quality of services (QoS) of rental users (RUs) and throughput. To validate the analytical results, simulations have been conducted to show effectiveness of the proposed scheme.