一种多用户协同频谱感知功率控制方案

分析和研究了多用户协同频谱感知原理,通过时分方式,实现了多用户之间的频谱共享。同时为避免对主用户产生有害的干扰,从用户通过一种算法控制它的发射功率,保证主用户的通信服务质量。最后对多用户协同频谱感知和单用户频谱感知的性能进行了仿真研究,结果表明多用户协同频谱感知可以明显提高频谱感知的性能,克服阴影/衰落作用的不利影响,提高频谱利用率。     

CATECAS: a content-aware transmission efficiency based channel allocation scheme for cognitive radio users with improved QoE

Cognitive radio (CR) is a promising technology for the upcoming 5G communication which addresses opportunistic channel usage for enhanced spectrum utilization. However, Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning is a major challenge for CR Network due to the service interruption and packet error caused by random primary activities. In addition to this, periodic spectrum sensing for primary user protection reduces the effective throughput of the secondary users (SUs). However, to ensure QoS of SUs especially for video application, throughput enhancement is necessary which can be achieved by efficient spectrum sensing and channel allocation policy. As the QoS requirements are different for different secondary applications, we propose a novel content aware channel allocation scheme that enhances the Quality of Experience (QoE) of SUs. At first, the proposed scheme analyzes the QoS requirements of different SUs and prioritizes them. Consequently, the optimum sensing duration is determined to maximize the transmission efficiency and throughput of SUs. Finally, a novel content aware transmission efficiency-based channel assignment scheme (CATECAS) is proposed for SUs, considering the estimated channel quality and QoS requirements concurrently. Extensive performance analysis of CATESCAS on real-time video and file download applications confirms significant QoE improvement for SUs especially for rapid movement type of video application, which is considered as the most critical among different secondary applications.

     

Investigation on outage capacity of spectrum sharing system using CSI and SSI under received power constraints

In this paper, we have investigated the outage capacity of secondary user for opportunistic spectrum sharing under the joint peak and average received power constraints for Rayleigh fading environment. Under this communication scenario, on detecting the licensed primary user inactive, the secondary unlicensed users transmit data/information in the licensed frequency band such that no or minimum interference may be experienced by the primary user. The soft sensing information (SSI) and secondary user’s channel state information is used to obtain the closed form expressions for the ergodic and outage capacity using truncated channel inversion with fixed rate technique under the joint peak and average received power constraints. Numerically simulated results are provided to demonstrate the improvement in outage capacity of secondary user under the proposed spectrum sharing scheme. Moreover, the proposed scheme is also compared with other conventional spectrum sharing schemes to illustrate the benefits of SSI and received power constraints on the outage capacity of secondary user.

     

Quality of service assessment of opportunistic spectrum access: a medium access control approach [dependability in the ubiquitous wireless access]

Opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) is a promising new spectrum management approach that will allow coexistence of both licensed and opportunistic users in each spectrum band, potentially decreasing the spectrum licensing costs for both classes of users. However, this has significant implications on the QoS experienced by the licensed and opportunistic spectrum users. In this article we investigate how tolerant to secondary user activity a licensed user should be so as to provide dependable communication with sufficient QoS to an opportunistic user. We also look at key multichannel MAC features for such OSA networks proposed in the literature, and discuss how the design of control channel management affects the QoS of opportunistic users as a function of the tolerance of licensed users. We quantify the trade-off between dependability of the OSA network and the dependability of licensed users. The main conclusion is that opportunistic users can indeed achieve good QoS, as long as the licensed users are not highly active. For example, in one of the scenarios we studied, opportunistic users can achieve a delay below 100 ms if licensed user activity stays below 30 percent.     

Rate and Power Optimization Under Received-Power Constraints for Opportunistic Spectrum-Sharing Communication

In this paper, the channel capacity of secondary user is investigated for opportunistic spectrum sharing with primary user in a Rayleigh fading environment. In the proposed communication scenario, on finding transmission opportunities in licensed band, secondary user utilizes the band as long as the interference power inflicted on primary receiver is below the predefined threshold, and adjusts its transmission power and data rate based on the sensing information available from spectrum sensor. In this context, two different adaptation schemes namely adaptive transmission power scheme and adaptive rate and transmission power scheme are investigated under joint peak and average received power constraints at primary receiver for multilevel quadrature amplitude modulation format. The closed form expressions are derived for the ergodic channel capacities of these schemes and numerical results are presented to validate the theoretical results. Moreover, a comparison between channel capacities is given to illustrate the benefit of using soft sensing information under said constraints.

     

Capacity in fading environment based on soft sensing information under spectrum sharing constraints

In this paper, the ergodic channel capacity for a secondary user is investigated using soft sensing information about primary user activity in a shared channel under joint peak transmit power and average received interference power constraints for Nakagami-m fading channel. The results of the proposed power adaptation scheme illustrate the effect of communication environment parameters and soft sensing information about primary user activity on the channel capacity of secondary user. In particular, the effect of cross link channel state information to maximize the channel capacity for the power adaptation scheme is emphasized by considering the Lagrangian optimization problem for joint peak transmit power and average interference power constraints. Moreover, the performance of the primary user is also investigated considering the interference of the secondary user to the primary in spectrum sharing environment in terms of transmission rate and average channel capacity.     

An optimal OSA approach based on channel-usage estimate under collision probability constraint in cognitive radio systems

Opportunistic spectrum access system allows the secondary user to access spectrum holes not being utilized by the primary user. Traditional opportunistic spectrum access approaches only sense and utilize current spectrum holes. This can result in uncontrollable collision probability, which exceed the maximum collision probability allowed by the primary user network. In this paper, we consider a cognitive radio system with one primary channel and one secondary user, and then, we introduce a channel-usage pattern model and a fundamental access scheme in this system. Based on the fundamental access scheme, we adopt fixed detection duration and transmission duration ratio approach to analyze what and how to determine spectrum holes utilization and collision probability in this model. On the basis of this model and fundamental access scheme, we study optimal opportunistic spectrum access problem and formulate it as an optimization problem that the secondary user maximizes spectrum holes utilization under the constraint of collision tolerable level, and then we solve this optimization problem in two cases: one is that the idle period is exponential distribution, the other is that the idle period is Pareto distribution. According to the solution of the optimization problem, we respectively propose an optimal opportunistic spectrum access algorithm in each case. Theoretical analysis and simulation results both show that the optimal opportunistic spectrum access algorithms can maximize spectrum holes utilization under the constraint that the collision probability is bounded below collision tolerable level.     

基于业务请求数据包长度的机会频谱接入算法

针对非时隙主用户网络,研究了单个次用户在周期性感知框架下的机会频谱接入问题。通过建立次用户信道感知和接入模型,提出了一种基于次用户请求业务数据包长度的机会频谱接入算法。该算法根据每个时隙分配给次用户业务数据包长度,自适应调整机会频谱接入策略。仿真结果表明,所提算法能够在干扰水平要求较高情况下,提高次用户平均有效传输吞吐量的同时,实现有效吞吐量与碰撞概率的折中;同时当外部环境发生变化时算法具有较强的鲁棒性。     

Performance analysis of an opportunistic multi‐user cognitive network with multiple primary users

Consider a multi‐user underlay cognitive network where multiple cognitive users concurrently share the spectrum with a primary network with multiple users. The channel between the secondary network is assumed to have independent but not identical Nakagami‐m fading. The interference channel between the secondary users (SUs) and the primary users is assumed to have Rayleigh fading. A power allocation based on the instantaneous channel state information is derived when a peak interference power constraint is imposed on the secondary network in addition to the limited peak transmit power of each SU. The uplink scenario is considered where a single SU is selected for transmission. This opportunistic selection depends on the transmission channel power gain and the interference channel power gain as well as the power allocation policy adopted at the users. Exact closed form expressions for the moment‐generating function, outage performance, symbol error rate performance, and the ergodic capacity are derived. Numerical results corroborate the derived analytical results. The performance is also studied in the asymptotic regimes, and the generalized diversity gain of this scheduling scheme is derived. It is shown that when the interference channel is deeply faded and the peak transmit power constraint is relaxed, the scheduling scheme achieves full diversity and that increasing the number of primary users does not impact the diversity order. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Capacity and Energy Efficiency of Multi-User Spectrum Sharing Systems with Opportunistic Scheduling

This paper investigates the capacity and energy efficiency of spectrum sharing systems with opportunistic user selection where a secondary network utilizes spectrum bands licensed to a primary network under interference regulation. In spectrum sharing systems, secondary users consume a fraction of their resources in sensing the channels to the primary users to comply with the interference constraints. Although more resources for sensing improve reliability and performance, the throughput loss due to time overhead and energy loss due to power overhead should be properly incorporated in performance evaluation. In this context, we define and derive a new metric ? average capacity normalized by the total energy consumption ? reflecting time and power overhead for spectrum sensing. Based on the developed framework, the optimal normalizedcapacity is investigated. We also propose a simple and practical suboptimal best-n scheme motivated by the infeasibility and high computational complexity of the optimal strategy, where n denotes the number of sensing secondary users. Our analytical and simulation results show that the proposed best-1 scheme is an energy-efficient technique with near optimality in terms of the capacity normalized by the energy consumption.     

基于粒子滤波的协作式空时联合频谱检测方法

认知无线电系统中,通过频谱检测所获得的主用户位置信息和信道使用状态信息分别反映空间域和时间域的频谱使用情况,其准确性关系到次用户伺机频谱接入的效率。本文研究空间和时间联合频谱检测问题,将其建模为主用户位置参数和信道使用状态的联合估计问题,提出了一种基于粒子滤波的协作式空时联合频谱检测方法,主要思想是采用离散随机测度逼近位置参数和信道状态的联合后验概率分布函数,根据该分布估计出主用户位置和信道状态。同时,该方法结合由估计得到的空间和时间信息,自适应选择靠近主用户且对称分布的次用户参与协作检测,增加各次用户提供信息的有效性,从而提高估计的准确性;最后,通过仿真验证了方法的有效性。      

Decentralized cognitive MAC for opportunistic spectrum access in ad hoc networks: A POMDP framework

We propose decentralized cognitive MAC protocols that allow secondary users to independently search for spectrum opportunities without a central coordinator or a dedicated communication channel. Recognizing hardware and energy constraints, we assume that a secondary user may not be able to perform full-spectrum sensing or may not be willing to monitor the spectrum when it has no data to transmit. We develop an analytical framework for opportunistic spectrum access based on the theory of partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP). This decision-theoretic approach integrates the design of spectrum access protocols at the MAC layer with spectrum sensing at the physical layer and traffic statistics determined by the application layer of the primary network. It also allows easy incorporation of spectrum sensing error and constraint on the probability of colliding with the primary users. Under this POMDP framework, we propose cognitive MAC protocols that optimize the performance of secondary users while limiting the interference perceived by primary users. A suboptimal strategy with reduced complexity yet comparable performance is developed. Without additional control message exchange between the secondary transmitter and receiver, the proposed decentralized protocols ensure synchronous hopping in the spectrum between the transmitter and the receiver in the presence of collisions and spectrum sensing errors     

主用户活跃性对新的认知无线电系统容量的影响

在机会频谱接入认知无线电系统中,认知用户只有在通过感知确定信道空闲时才可以接入授权信道,因此频谱感知对于系统性能影响非常重要。本文提出了基于新帧结构的四元频谱感知模型,考虑主用户活跃性对认知网络吞吐量的影响,采用可同时最大化感知和数据传输时间的新帧结构模型,不需要考虑感知和吞吐量的均衡。理论分析新模型下感知时间,主用户活跃性,目标检测概率,主用户接收信噪比对系统吞吐量的影响,并与传统模型进行对比。     

Adaptive Decode-and-Forward Protocol Based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio with Interference at the Secondary Users

In this paper a novel multiple-user cooperative spectrum sensing scheme (MCSS) based on hybrid relay is proposed to achieve the spatial diversity gain in detection of the primary user (PU) in a cognitive radio (CR) network. A practically important case where co-channel interference signals are present at the network is considered for the analysis. Closed-form expressions of detection probability \((\hbox {P}_{\mathrm{d}})\) and false alarm probability \((\alpha )\) for the proposed adaptive decode-and-forward based multiple-user cooperative spectrum sensing scheme (ADF-MCSS) using energy detector over Rayleigh fading sensing channels is derived in presence of co-channel interference at the secondary user which is far away from the PU. Further we extend the concept of two user amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and-forward (DF) cooperative spectrum sensing schemes in multiple-user scenario (i.e. AF-MCSS and DF-MCSS) over Rayleigh fading channels when the secondary user (which is far away from PU) is affected by interference. Closed-form expressions of AF-MCSS and DF-MCSS schemes over a Rayleigh fading channels are also evaluated and compared with that of proposed ADF-MCSS in presence of interference signals at the secondary user. Further the performance analysis of AF-MCSS, DF-MCSS and ADF-MCSS schemes are compared with the existing non-cooperative spectrum sensing schemes in presence of interference at the secondary user. Our analysis is validated by numerical and simulation results for multiple-user CR network. The impact of number of cooperative relays, SNR in sensing channel, energy of interference signal, false alarm on detection probability in proposed ADF, AF and DF schemes is shown.     

认知Ad Hoc网络能量有效频谱接入策略

针对认知无线Ad Hoc网络中次用户能量受限问题,提出一种基于能量有效性的机会频谱接入策略。联合考虑信道状态的时变性和次用户的频谱感知准确性,基于部分可观测马尔科夫决策过程（POMDP）建立了一种最大化能量有效性的分析架构,指导次用户选择能效最佳信道,并根据信念状态、信道增益和检测概率,自适应控制传输功率。仿真结果表明,该策略能够有效提高次用户传输的能量有效性,通过对传输功率的有效控制,实现了传输性能和能量开销的有效折中。      

Optimization of spectrum utilization in cognitive radio system

In Cognitive Radio (CR) networks, CR user has to detect the spectrum channel periodically to make sure that the channel is idle during data transmission frame in order to avoid the collisions to the primary users. Hence recent research has been focused on the interference avoidance problem. Quality of Service (QoS) requirement of CR user will affect the time of data transmission in each frame. In this paper, in order to solve the interference avoidance and spectrum utilization problems without cooperation among CR users, a new scheme to obtain the optimal duration of data transmission frame is proposed to maximize the spectrum utilization and guarantee the protection to the primary users. The main advantages of our proposed scheme include the followings: (1) QoS requirement of CR user is concerned; (2) p-persistent Media Access Control (MAC) random access is used to avoid the collisions among CR users; (3) CR network system capacity is considered. We develop a Markov chain of the primary spectrum channel states and an exponential distribution of the CR user??s traffic model to analyze the performance of our proposed scheme. Computer simulation shows that there is an optimal data transmission time to maximize the spectrum utilization. However, the regulatory constraint of the collision rate to the primary users has to be satisfied at the expense of spectrum utilization. And also the tradeoff between the spectrum utilization and the capacity of the CR system is taken into account.     

Location based spectrum sensing performance analysis over fading channels in cognitive radio networks

This paper analyzes the spectrum sensing performance over fading channel,in which a licensee and multiple unlicensed users coexist and operate in the licensed channel in a local area. The overall average probabilities of detection and false alarm by jointly taking the fading and the locations of all secondary users into account are derived,and a statistical model of cumulate interference is constructed. Based on the cumulate interference,a closed-form expression of outage probability at the primary user's receiver according to a specific distribution of the fading is obtained. Finally,the sensing parameters so as to minimize the total spectrum sensing error and maximize the average opportunistic throughput are obtained. It is noted that the overall average performance analysis and results here enable to benchmark the design of specific spectrum sensing algorithms.     

具有约束条件的认知无线电网络最优频谱价格函数

保证主用户的QoS是认知无线电网络中必须遵循的原则之一.本文利用伺机频谱共享方式中的实际约束条件,求解出既能保证主用户的QoS,又能使主业务运营商获得较大利润的最优频谱价格函数.该价格函数能反映实际的通信环境(如信道质量、业务动态性)对频谱价格的影响,同时在动态环境下,通过迭代可以使频谱价格收敛到最优价格.仿真结果表明...     

Opportunistic power allocation strategies and fair subcarrier allocation in OFDM-based cognitive radio networks

In this paper we have studied the subcarrier and optimal power allocation strategy for OFDM-based cognitive radio (CR) networks. Firstly, in order to protect the primary user communication from the interference of the cognitive user transmissions in fading wireless channels, we design an opportunistic power control scheme to maximize the cognitive user capacity without degrading primary user’s QoS. The mathematical optimization problem is formulated as maximizing the capacity of the secondary users under the interference constraint at the primary receiver and the Lagrange method is applied to obtain the optimal solution. Secondly, in order to limit the outage probability within primary user’s tolerable range we analyze the outage probability of the primary user with respect to the interference power of the secondary user for imperfect CSI. Finally, in order to get the better tradeoff between fairness and system capacity in cognitive radio networks, we proposed an optimal algorithm of jointing subcarrier and power allocation scheme among multiple secondary users in OFDM-based cognitive radio networks. Simulation results demonstrate that our scheme can improve the capacity performance and efficiently guarantee the fairness of secondary users.