Cooperative Communications for Cognitive Radio Networks

Cognitive radio is an exciting emerging technology that has the potential of dealing with the stringent requirement and scarcity of the radio spectrum. Such revolutionary and transforming technology represents a paradigm shift in the design of wireless systems, as it will allow the agile and efficient utilization of the radio spectrum by offering distributed terminals or radio cells the ability of radio sensing, self-adaptation, and dynamic spectrum sharing. Cooperative communications and networking is another new communication technology paradigm that allows distributed terminals in a wireless network to collaborate through some distributed transmission or signal processing so as to realize a new form of space diversity to combat the detrimental effects of fading channels. In this paper, we consider the application of these technologies to spectrum sensing and spectrum sharing. One of the most important challenges for cognitive radio systems is to identify the presence of primary (licensed) users over a wide range of spectrum at a particular time and specific geographic location. We consider the use of cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio systems to enhance the reliability of detecting primary users. We shall describe spectrum sensing for cognitive radios and propose robust cooperative spectrum sensing techniques for a practical framework employing cognitive radios. We also investigate cooperative communications for spectrum sharing in a cognitive wireless relay network. To exploit the maximum spectrum opportunities, we present a cognitive space–time–frequency coding technique that can opportunistically adjust its coding structure by adapting itself to the dynamic spectrum environment.      

A Survey of Cooperative Games for Cognitive Radio Networks

Cooperative cognitive radio networks are new cognitive radio paradigm. Cooperative communication approaches, such as cooperative spectrum sensing and cooperative spectrum sharing, are playing key roles in the development of cognitive radio networks. To achieve the high performance, a cooperative cognitive communication framework is often used to model various cooperative spectrum sensing or sharing scenarios. However, its implementation faces numerous challenges due to the complexity of mobility and traffic models, the needs of dynamic spectrum access, the heterogeneous requirements from different users, and the distributed structure of the network. Fortunately, cooperative game theory can be used to formulate and model the interactions among licensed and unlicensed users for spectrum sensing and spectrum sharing to efficiently allocate spectrum resource in the highly dynamic and distributed radio environment. In this paper, we first present the cooperative communication technologies and describe their existing challenges, then introduce different game solutions, after that, we discuss several cooperative game strategies, and analyze the associated their applications in cognitive radio networks, at final, some open directions for future research on economic strategies in cooperative communication in cognitive radio networks are proposed.     

喷泉码在认知无线电网络中的应用

认知无线电网络被认为是实现动态频谱共享、缓解频谱资源紧缺的重要途径。喷泉码能有效抵抗认知无线电网络中来自主用户的突发干扰,且无需反馈重传,从而为认知无线电网络提供了一种有效的信道编码方案。首先简介了数字喷泉码以及认知无线电网络基础知识,然后综述了数字喷泉码在认知无线电网络的链路建立、认知通信以及在资源分配中的应用现状,最后指出了在这一研究领域中需要解决的问题,并展望了发展前景。     

Cross‐layer design of partial spectrum sharing for two licensed networks using cognitive radios

To utilize spectrum resources more efficiently, dynamic spectrum access attempts to allocate the spectrum to users in an intelligent manner. Uncoordinated sharing with cognitive radio (CR) users is a promising approach for dynamic spectrum access. In the uncoordinated sharing model, CR is an enabling technology that allows the unlicensed or secondary users to opportunistically access the licensed spectrum bands (belonging to the so‐called primary users), without any modifications or updates for the licensed systems. However, because of the limited resources for making spectrum observations, spectrum sensing for CR is bound to have errors and will degrade the grade‐of‐service performance of both primary and secondary users. In this paper, we first propose a new partial spectrum sharing policy, which achieves efficient spectrum sharing between two licensed networks. Then, a Markov chain model is devised to analyze the proposed policy considering the effects of sensing errors. We also construct a cross‐layer design framework, in which the parameters of spectrum sharing policy at the multiple‐access control layer and the spectrum sensing parameters at the physical layer are simultaneously coordinated to maximize the overall throughput of the networks, while satisfying the grade‐of‐service constraints of the users. Numerical results show that the proposed spectrum sharing policy and the cross‐layer design strategy achieve a much higher overall throughput for the two networks. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

An auction‐based MAC protocol for cognitive radio networks

Cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum sharing systems use innovative spectrum management techniques that allow different systems to share the same frequency band to utilize the radio spectrum in an efficient way. In this paper, we propose a novel cognitive media access control protocol for cognitive radio networks under the property‐rights model, in which secondary users are divided into several nonoverlapping groups, and each group uses the proposed auction algorithm to bid for required channels from the auctioneer appointed by primary users. Simulations indicate that our proposed media access control protocol can effectively utilize spectrum resources, achieve high system efficiency, and guarantee the fairness of channel allocation among groups. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Master-Slave Stochastic Knapsack Modeling for Fully Dynamic Spectrum Allocation

Scarcity problem of radio spectrum resource stimulates the research on cognitive radio technology, in which dynamic spectrum allocation attracts lots of attention. For higher access efficiency in cognitive radio context, we suggest a fully dynamic access scheme for primary and secondary users, which is modeled by a master-slave stochastic knapsack process. Equilibrium behavior of this knapsack model is analyzed: expressions of blocking probability of both master and slave classes are derived as performance criterion, as well as forced termination probability for the slave class. All the theoretic results are verified by numeric simulations. Compared to traditional opportunistic spectrum access (OSA), which can be regarded as half dynamic due to primary users?? rough preemption, our scheme leads to less termination events for the secondary users while keeping the same performance for the primary class, thus promotes the system access performance. Nonideal spectrum sensing algorithm with detection error is also taken into consideration to evaluate its impact on system access performance, which is a practical issue for implementation.     

非实时业务下认知网络的频谱共享

根据某种特定业务的QoS要求制定相应的频谱共享策略,可以在这种情况下提高系统的频谱利用率,增加用户平均收益。对非实时业务下的认知网络的频谱共享策略进行了研究,考虑各非授权用户业务量和信道质量对系统频谱效率的影响,提出了一种非实时业务专用的NRT-dedicate频谱共享算法。仿真结果表明,在非实时业务情况下,该算法可以获得比通用业务的频谱共享算法的频谱利用率。     

应急通信网络的动态频谱接入方案研究

利用认知无线电的动态频谱接入技术,提高应急通信网络在突发事件中的反应效率已成为无线通信领域的研究热点。对认知无线电的几种动态频谱接入方案进行了探索及研究。由分析可知,选择合适的接入方案,将会形成认知用户间的良性竞争,降低CR业务的通信中断率,从而增大系统的吞吐量,提升整个系统的性能。     

填充式频谱共享中的功率分配算法分析

动态频谱共享技术允许认知用户接入未授权的频谱,可以有效地提高频谱资源的利用率。在分析了频谱共享的2种接入模式的基础上,提出了填充式频谱共享的系统模型。根据认知用户的效用函数,通过注水算法得到了用户间的功率迭代公式,进而求得了认知用户的功率和载波分配结果。仿真表明,该迭代算法在有效完成用户间功率与载波分配的同时能够在较短的时间内收敛。     

认知无线电网络的MAC层关键技术

认知无线电作为一种智能的频谱共享技术,已成为无线通信领域的研究热点。为达到在不干扰授权用户的条件下有效地实现机会式频谱利用,认知无线电网络的媒体接入控制（MAC）层不仅需要提供传统的服务,还要求能支持一套全新的功能。频谱检测管理通过对检测模式的选取、检测周期及检测时长的设置、检测信道的选取和检测静默期的设置等实现检测策略和参数的选取及优化。接入控制主要采用与授权用户协调接入和透明接入两种方式避免与授权用户的接入产生碰撞。动态频谱分配针对二进制干扰模型和累积干扰模型进行不确定频谱资源的优化分配。安全机制通过增加MAC帧的认证和保密以防御MAC层的安全攻击。跨层设计结合物理层和网络层、传输层等上层信息设计和实现全局优化的MAC层技术。     

Multi-channel transmission strategy for dynamic spectrum access

Cognitive radio is a promising technology that deals with the scarcity of radio spectrum. In this paper, we propose a new multi-channel transmission strategy for dynamic spectrum access in cognitive radio network. Starting with the model of spectrum activities, we present the multi-channel transmission strategy which has primary user’s protection mechanism to improve the spectrum efficiency and study its performance under perfect and imperfect sensing. Numerical example results reveal that the performance of the proposed strategy has the superiority with respect to capacity performance of cognitive users and the protection of primary users.     

Coexistence of primary users and secondary users under interference temperature and SINR limit

Spectrum sharing offers the opportunity for promising efficiency gains,and it will be a valuable tool in the era of future radios.To address this issue,we develop a multi-user cognitive radio sharing network based on opportunistic spectrum access and propose a new spectrum sharing strategy.The objective of our interest is to obtain the number of secondary users who can coexist peacefully with primary users to improve the utility of licensed spectrum,at the same time maximize the total goodput under the interference temperature and SINR constraints.Through analysis and simulation,the new strategy of spectrum sharing does improve the goodput performance as well as guarantee the Quality of Service (QoS) of primary and secondary users.     

Economic Approaches for Cognitive Radio Networks: A Survey

Efficient resource allocation is one of the key concerns of implementing cognitive radio networks. Game theory has been extensively used to study the strategic interactions between primary and secondary users for effective resource allocation. The concept of spectrum trading has introduced a new direction for the coexistence of primary and secondary users through economic benefits to primary users. The use of price theory and market theory from economics has played a vital role to facilitate economic models for spectrum trading. So, it is important to understand the feasibility of using economic approaches as well as to realize the technical challenges associated with them for implementation of cognitive radio networks. With this motivation, we present an extensive summary of the related work that use economic approaches such as game theory and/or price theory/market theory to model the behavior of primary and secondary users for spectrum sharing and discuss the associated issues. We also propose some open directions for future research on economic aspects of spectrum sharing in cognitive radio networks.     

认知无线电技术的国内外发展与研究现状

为了研究认知无线电技术的国内外发展现状,对从1999年至2008年的所有的IEEE中有关认知无线电技术的文章进行了统计分析,用表格形式展现了总体研究情况、系统/结构的设计、频谱感知、频谱决策、频谱共享、频谱切换等几方面的研究现状,并对文章的研究内容、目前可供研究的开放性等问题进行了总结和分析,最后统计了各国研究机构和大学在认知无线电研究领域的情况统计结果显示目前对系统/结构设计、频谱感知和频谱共享三方面的研究较多,而对其他方面研究较少;美国、欧洲和中国在认知无线电技术方面取得了一些成果     

Performance Analysis of Cognitive Radio Spectrum Access with Different Primary User Access Schemes

The cognitive access process based on different access schemes of the primary user in the spectrum sharing system of cognitive radio is studied. In the cognitive system with finite user population, the primary users access the licensed channels through random access, real-reservation access, pseudo-reservation access and non-random access. The cognitive users access the licensed channels without interfering the primary users. Their access process is modeled using the three-dimensional continuous Markov model. The performance analysis is presented with variation of the number of cognitive users. It is known from the simulated results that the handoff probability, the blocking probability and the forced termination probability of the cognitive users increase with the increase of the number of cognitive users. It is also found that the random access scheme has the highest handoff probability. And the real-reservation access scheme has the highest blocking probability and forced termination probability. In addition, the non-random access scheme has the maximum channel utilization.     

认知无线电网络中基于动态信誉机制的频谱分配策略研究

认知无线电技术作为一种新型频谱共享技术而成为近年来研究的热点。如何确保频谱共享中资源分配的合理性和可靠性是认知无线电技术所面临的一个新的挑战。通过对认知用户不同情况下可能采取行为的分析和研究,提出一种结合VCG机制和主观逻辑理论的基于动态信誉机制的频谱分配策略。该策略能保证认知用户在理性的情况下提供真实的申请资源信息而对用户的非理性行为采取有效地控制。同时根据策略设计相应算法。仿真结果表明该算法能够有效地防止用户在申请资源时的欺骗行为以提高频谱利用率,并且能够减轻用户的非理性行为对系统造成的影响。      

A survey on spectrum management in cognitive radio networks [cognitive radio communications and networks]

Cognitive radio networks will provide high bandwidth to mobile users via heterogeneous wireless architectures and dynamic spectrum access techniques. However, CR networks impose challenges due to the fluctuating nature of the available spectrum, as well as the diverse QoS requirements of various applications. Spectrum management functions can address these challenges for the realization of this new network paradigm. To provide a better understanding of CR networks, this article presents recent developments and open research issues in spectrum management in CR networks. More specifically, the discussion is focused on the development of CR networks that require no modification of existing networks. First, a brief overview of cognitive radio and the CR network architecture is provided. Then four main challenges of spectrum management are discussed: spectrum sensing, spectrum decision, spectrum sharing, and spectrum mobility.     

认知无线电网络用户合作机会接入方案的研究

认知无线电技术可以用来解决随着无线通信的迅速发展而突显出来的频谱实际利用率不高的问题,并缓解频谱分配紧张的局面.本文所关注的是多个认知无线电用户(SU)的机会频谱接入问题.分布式认知无线电网络中,为避免和授权用户(PU)发生冲突,通常采用周期性感知方法,这将使吞吐量降低.本文提出了一种认知无线电用户间高效的合作方案.文中分析了用户合作的最好和最坏两种情况下系统吞吐量的解析解.通过仿真验证了理论结果,并比较分析几种方案下每个用户和系统吞吐量随用户数量的变化,得出了用户间有效的合作可以提高各自以及整个系统的吞吐量的结论.     

Comparison of Mamdani and Sugeno Inference Systems for Dynamic Spectrum Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks

Dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radio are emerging technologies to utilize the scarce frequency spectrum in an efficient and opportunistic manner. Cognitive radio, built on software defined radio, is an intelligent radio technology that updates its operating parameters to locate the unused spectrum segments. To assign these vacant bands to unlicensed users without causing harmful interference to licensed users, a novel approach is proposed in this article based on fuzzy logic. Two different fuzzy inference system models i.e. Mamdani and Sugeno systems are developed that compute spectrum access decision based on the secondary user parameters such as signal strength, distance between the primary and secondary user, spectrum utilization efficiency and degree of mobility. 81 fuzzy rules are used to obtain the output of proposed system stating the possibilities of allotment of white spaces to secondary users.     

Impact of secondary user mobility on spectrum handoff under generalized residual time distributions in cognitive radio networks

Cognitive Radio is an emerging technology to accommodate the growing demand for wireless technology via dynamic spectrum access to enhance spectrum efficiency. Spectrum handoff is an important component of Cognitive Radio technology for practical implementation of radio frequency access strategy and better utilization of spectrum in both primary and secondary networks. The probability of spectrum handoff and expected number of spectrum handoffs are key parameters in performance analysis and design of the cognitive radio network. This work presents an analytical model to evaluate the impact of secondary users’ mobility on intra-cell spectrum handoff considering primary users’ activity model in a cognitive radio network. A standard form of intra-cell spectrum handoff probability and expected number of intra-cell spectrum handoffs are derived for complete call duration of a non-stationary secondary user. The probability and expected number of intra-cell spectrum handoffs of a post inter-cell handoff call are also derived for generalized residual time distributions of call holding time and spectrum holes. A detailed analysis of these performance measuring metrics is presented under the impact of departure rate and cell crossing rate of secondary users. The accuracy of the derived analytical result is validated by Monte-Carlo simulation of the model.