Joint Spectrum Allocation and Relay Selection in Cellular Cognitive Radio Networks

Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) has been proposed in recent years to solve the spectrum scarcity problem by exploiting the existence of spectrum holes. One of the important issues in the cellular CRNs is how to efficiently allocate primary user (PU) spectrum inside a CRN cell without causing harmful interference to PUs. In this paper, we present a cross-layer framework which jointly considers spectrum allocation and relay selection with the objective of maximizing the minimum traffic demand of secondary users (SUs) in a CRN cell. Specifically, we consider (1) CRN tries to utilize PU spectrum even when the CRN cell is not completely outside the protection region of the PU cell, and (2) cooperative relay is used in cellular CRNs to improve the utilization of PU spectrum. We formulate this cross-layer design problem as a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) and propose a low complexity heuristic algorithm to solve it. Compared to a simple channel allocation scheme, the numerical results show a significant improvement by using our proposed method and the performance is close to the optimal solution. We further consider the spectrum allocation among several CRN cells with the objective of maximizing the overall minimum throughput of all cells while ensuring each individual cell’s minimum throughput requirement. A low complexity algorithm is proposed to achieve the objective with satisfactory performance.     

Fairness Analysis of Inter-cell Relay in Downlink OFDMA Cellular Networks

Wireless Personal Communications - In the OFDMA cellular network, in order to improve the throughput of the cell system and the overall resource utilization of the system as well as the quality of...     

Outage Probability in Full Spectrum Reuse Cellular Systems with Discontinuous Transmission

Co-channel interference has a very strong impact on the performance of cellular mobile radio systems; a performance measure to evaluate its effect is the outage probability. This work presents an analytical general formula for the outage probability evaluation in full spectrum reuse cellular systems with discontinuous transmission. In particular, both Nakagami and Rician fading along with log-normal shadowing have been considered in the signal propagation model. In addition, the discontinuous transmission strategy is considered. The results are applied to the throughput evaluation of a packet cellular radio network based on the slotted Aloha protocol.     

Bandwidth Partitioning and SINR Threshold Analysis of Fractional Frequency Reuse in OFDMA Cellular Networks for Real Time and Best Effort Traffic

To achieve high capacity in cellular networks, frequency reuse factor of unity is used. However, it suffers from heavy co-channel interference at cell edge regions. This leads to poor Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) and hence poor performance. fractional frequency reuse (FFR) is one of the methods being considered to improve cell edge performance. In this work we present the impact of SINR threshold and bandwidth partitioning on the successful deployment of FFR scheme. We have considered both real time (RT) and best effort (BE) traffic. In FFR, the total frequency resource is divided logically into cell center and cell edge user bands. However, while frequency resource is partitioned into two segments, the amount of bandwidth required by cell center and cell edge users is quite different and influences the system performance. We developed the semi analytical approach to evaluate the average bandwidth required by cell center and edge band users. From the analysis and simulation results it is seen that while grade of service (GoS) fair based method of choosing bandwidth partitioning ratio is best for RT traffic, while the only feasible method for BE traffic is dividing the bandwidth based on probability of a user to be in a given band which we termed as ‘Probability’ method.     

A Framework to Optimize the OFDM-Based Multiuser Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks with Frequency Reuse

This paper presents a novel framework to optimally solve the spectrum access problem at the central spectrum moderator (CSM) for multiple radio pairs. In the system model considered, the available spectrum is partitioned into N subcarriers, and the proposed CSM assigns subcarriers to multiple radio pairs with the objective to maximize the total achievable bit rate in the network. Each transceiver adopts the OFDM frontend, and transmits only on those subcarriers assigned to it. The proposed algorithm jointly considers the effect of interference from multiple co-channel radios, while at the same time supports all transmitters at their minimum guaranteed bit rate, under individual total transmit power constraint. Our proposed method converts the original NP-hard mixed integer non-linear programming problem into a mixed binary linear programming problem, which can be solved optimally using standard algorithms.     

Joint Relay Selection and Power Allocation for Cooperative Cellular Networks

The principal purpose of this paper is to develop a joint relay selection and power allocation algorithm in cooperative cellular networks with multiple users assisted by multiple relays. By solving a rate optimization problem, we can obtain the optimal solutions and the distributed implementation based on the primal-dual decomposition. An admission control algorithm is also presented when there exists the minimal rate requirement for each user. Simulation results indicate that the algorithm with joint design is superior to the existing ones with isolated design in large total transmission rates and small deviations. Moreover, with the admission control algorithm, the rate requirements for users participating in cooperation are also satisfied.     

Interference Coordination in Cellular OFDMA Networks

Orthogonal frequency division multiple access is the basis for several emerging mobile communication systems. Prominent examples are the 3GPP Long Term Evolution as the successor of UMTS high-speed packet access and the IEEE 802.16 system, advanced by the WiMAX forum. On a system level, OFDMA is basically a combination of time and frequency division multiple access. In cellular TDM/FDM systems, inter-cell interference is a major issue that traditionally has been solved by avoiding the use of the same frequency bands in adjacent cells. However, this solution incurs a waste of precious frequency resources. An attractive alternative is the use of beamforming antennas in combination with interference coordination mechanisms, where the transmission of adjacent base stations is coordinated to minimize inter-cell interference. Interference coordination is an important aspect of the system level, which influences many other issues, such as network planning or scheduling mechanisms. In this article, we give an overview of interference coordination as it would apply, for example, to IEEE 802.16e and review the relevant literature. We also discuss and compare interference coordination algorithms, which can be based either on global system knowledge or purely on local system knowledge.     

Spatial Spectrum Reuse for Opportunistic Spectrum Access in Infrastructure-Based Systems

Opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) receives a constantly growing interest due to its potential to mitigate spectrum scarcity and meet the increasing communication needs of mobile users. OSA refers to identifying and exploiting spatiotemporal unused portions of licensed spectrum to allow communication among unlicensed–secondary users (SUs) without adverse impact to the licensees (primary users—PUs). Key parameters in OSA are the spectrum opportunities detection method used by the SUs, and the interference level perceived by the PUs. A spatial spectrum reuse framework is proposed, where broadcast messages of an infrastructure-based primary system are exploited and combined with location-aware methods to detect spectrum opportunities and establish interference-free secondary links. The study of secondary link establishment probabilities revealed a spectrum reuse of up to 25% for omni-directional and up to 90% for directional antennas. Moreover, increased throughput is achieved in both cases, with directional antennas attaining significantly better performance.     

Cross-layer QoS Analysis of Opportunistic OFDM-TDMA and OFDMA Networks

Performance analysis of multiuser orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM-TDMA) and orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) networks in support of multimedia transmission is conducted in this work. We take a cross-layer approach and analyze several quality-of-service (QoS) measures that incilude the bit rate and the bit error rate (BER) in the physical layer, and packet average throughput/delay and packet maximum delay in the link layer. The authors adopt a cross-layer QoS framework similar to that in IEEE 802.16, where service classification, flow control and opportunistic scheduling with different subcarrier/bit allocation schemes are implemented. In the analysis, the Rayleigh fading channel in the link layer is modeled by a finite-state Markov chain, and the channel state information (CSI) is assumed to be available at the base station. With the M/G/1 queueing model and flow control results, the analysis provides important insights into the performance difference of these two multiaccess systems. The derived analytical results are verified by extensive computer simulation. It is demonstrated by analysis and simulation that OFDMA outperforms OFDM-TDMA in QoS metrics of interest. Thus, OFDMA has higher potential than OFDM-TDMA in supporting multimedia services.     

Spectrum Sharing between Cellular and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Transmission-Capacity Trade-Off

Spectrum sharing between wireless networks improves the efficiency of spectrum usage, and thereby alleviates spectrum scarcity due to growing demands for wireless broadband access. To improve the usual underutilization of the cellular uplink spectrum, this paper addresses spectrum sharing between a cellular uplink and a mobile ad hoc networks. These networks access either all frequency subchannels or their disjoint subsets, called spectrum underlay and spectrum overlay, respectively. Given these spectrum sharing methods, the capacity trade-off between the coexisting networks is analyzed based on the transmission capacity of a network with Poisson distributed transmitters. This metric is defined as the maximum density of transmitters subject to an outage constraint for a given signal-to-interference ratio (SIR). Using tools from stochastic geometry, the transmissioncapacity trade-off between the coexisting networks is analyzed, where both spectrum overlay and underlay as well as successive interference cancelation (SIC) are considered. In particular, for small target outage probability, the transmission capacities of the coexisting networks are proved to satisfy a linear equation, whose coefficients depend on the spectrum sharing method and whether SIC is applied. This linear equation shows that spectrum overlay is more efficient than spectrum underlay. Furthermore, this result also provides insight into the effects of network parameters on transmission capacities, including link diversity gains, transmission distances, and the base station density. In particular, SIC is shown to increase the transmission capacities of both coexisting networks by a linear factor, which depends on the interference-power threshold for qualifying canceled interferers.     

Dynamic Channel Assignment for Multihop Cellular Networks with Any Reuse Factor

A clustered multihop cellular network (cMCN) architecture is recently proposed and studied using fixed channel assignment (FCA) with a reuse factor, N_r=7. In this Letter, we propose and develop a multihop dynamic channel assignment (mDCA) scheme applicable with any reuse factor. The mDCA assigns channels with the knowledge of the information about interference in surrounding cells. Simulations show that the capacity improvements at call blocking probability of 1% for mDCA over the conventional FCA are 96% and 210% for N_r=4 and N_r=7, respectively.     

OFDM中继网络中的资源复用策略

OFDM与中继技术是下一代无线通信系统的重要候选方案。针对OFDM蜂窝中继网络,为进一步提高系统吞吐量与资源利用率,提出了一种集中式的小区内资源复用方案。基于对网络中直传用户与中继用户的信干噪比分析,通过设定一个有效的滞后门限以及各节点的有限反馈,基站能预估直传资源被复用后系统总容量的变化趋势。仿真表明,该方法能提升后5%用户的平均信干噪比,且能增强系统的总容量,是一种良好的资源复用方案。     

一种动态寻路中的机会转发模型

动态寻路（Dynamic Routing）是一项用以解决城市交通拥堵的智能交通技术.通过让一些车辆产生和转发路况拥堵消息,另一些车辆能够避开拥堵路段,从而缓解交通状况.以“存储-携带-转发”为通信模式的机会网络被广泛运用于动态寻路研究.文中提出了一种新型路况信息的机会转发算法,算法综合考虑车辆的位置和行驶方向.仿真实验表明,算法在保持信息散布效果的前提下,显著降低了网络负载,提升了效率.     

Optimal and Approximate Mobility-Assisted Opportunistic Scheduling in Cellular Networks

This paper considers the problem of scheduling multiple users in the downlink of a time-slotted cellular data network. For such a network, opportunistic scheduling algorithms improve system performance by exploiting time variations of the radio channel. We present novel optimal and approximate opportunistic scheduling algorithms that combine channel fluctuation and user mobility information in their decision rules. The algorithms modify the opportunistic scheduling framework of Liu et al., (1993) with dynamic constraints for fairness. These fairness constraints adapt according to the user mobility. The adaptation of constraints in the proposed algorithms implicitly results in giving priority to the users that are in the most favorable locations. The optimal algorithm is an offline algorithm that precomputes constraint values according to a known mobility model. The approximate algorithm is an online algorithm that relies on the future prediction of the user mobility locations in time. We show that the use of mobility information in opportunistic scheduling increases channel capacity. We also provide analytical bounds on the performance of the approximate algorithm using the fundamental inequality of Dyer et al., (1986) for linear programs. Simulation results on high data rate (HDR) illustrate the usefulness of the proposed schemes for elastic traffic and macrocell structures     

Performance Analysis of the Primary User in the Secondary User Relay Assisted Spectrum Sharing Networks

In this paper, inaccurate spectrum detecting by the secondary user (SU) is taken into account. The impact of the interference caused by the SUs due to miss detection on the primary user (PU) in a spectrum sharing network is analyzed, and those SU nodes of correct detection are assumed to act as potential relays to assist the PU transmission process based on two proposed cooperative transmission schemes, referred to as, the distance based and the signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) based schemes. We utilize stochastic geometry to analyze the impact of the secondary network parameters and cooperative transmission schemes on a typical primary source–destination (S–D) pair for the SU relay assisted spectrum sharing networks in Rayleigh fading environment. Using this approach, closed-form expressions for the primary system success probabilities with those cooperative transmission schemes as well as the PU direct re-transmission scheme are derived respectively. Simulations confirm our analytical derivations and results demonstrate that significant improvement on the PU success probability by using SU cooperative transmission schemes, and the SNR based scheme is superior to the distance based scheme.     

ULNR三网动态频谱共享方案研究

通过在ULNR三网动态频谱试验区测试2.1 GHz ULNR频谱共享基站覆盖能力,研究如何在保障3G用户语音体验的前提下提升4G/5G用户体验,如何根据不同场景的话务状况和性能需求,充分发挥2.1 GHz频率覆盖优势.研究结果有利于落实中国联通和中国电信制定的"3.5 GHz+2.1 GHz"双频5G组网战略,加速5G全覆盖网络建设进度,提升网络覆盖质量.     

Dynamic Spectrum Sharing for OFDMA-Based Multi-hop Cognitive Radio Networks with Priority

In this paper, we propose a resource assignment scheme of a secondary user (SU) for a multi-hop cognitive radio network. In multi-hop networks, since each link has different SNR because of their different distance between stations and multipath fading, the link of the smallest SNR is the bottleneck. For overcoming this problem, it is proposed to give a priority to each link based on the link SNR and to assign the resource blocks (RBs) in ordering of instantaneous SNR on the link. This link priority information is shared among nodes through a control channel. Then, we assign the selected SU RB to each SU node according to the SNR ordering with distributed manner. We confirm the effectiveness of the proposed SU RB assignment by using computer simulation.     

Bounds and Performance Networks of Reuse Partitioning in Cellular

In this paper we study a scheme that allows asmooth increase of the capacity of a cellular system forcircuit switching by applying cell partitioning andusing dynamic channel allocation techniques. A bound is computed for this reuse partitioningscheme that gives the maximum theoretical gainaccomplished in the system bandwidth. The performance ofthe proposed scheme in terms of blocking probability is evaluated both when the position of themobiles remains unchanged and when mobility is takeninto account. The numerical results show that thecapacity of the proposed scheme is sensibly higher than that of a fixed allocation scheme.     

Resource Allocation with Partitioning Criterion for Macro-Femto Overlay Cellular Networks with Fractional Frequency Reuse

The interference mitigation technique based on fractional frequency reuse (FFR) provides improved cell-edge performance with similar overall cell capacity as that of systems with the frequency reuse factor of one. Furthermore, frequency sub-band allocation by FFR has the benefit of allowing flexibility for the deployment of femto-cells through frequency partitioning. Determination of a proper frequency partitioning criterion between the cell-center and the cell-edge, and between the cells with femto-cells is an important issue. In addition, time resource partitioning introduces another degree of freedom to the design of time-frequency resource allocation. In this paper, we propose a novel time-frequency resource allocation mechanism using FFR for a macro-femto overlay cellular network. Feasible frequency sub-band and time resource is allocated to the cell-center and the cell-edge region in a cell by the proposed partitioning criterion and the time partitioning ratio. We provide a guideline for how to determine the partitioning criterion for the regions and how to design the amount of time resource. We derive the average capacity of macro-cells and femto-cells, and introduce a new harmonic mean metric to maximize the average capacity of the regions while achieving the fairness among users in a cell.     

动态频谱分配与频谱共享研究综述

文中针对当前无线频谱政策和无线频谱技术局限所导致的频谱整体利用率低的问题,分析了能有效提高频谱利用率的动态频谱分配和共享技术的研究现状,包括相邻和分片动态频谱分配技术,共存和覆盖式频谱共享技术,感知无线电技术,以及频谱池技术,并讨论了其未来的研究方向,尤其是感知无线电和基于OFDM的频谱池方法.