认知频谱共享系统最大比例合并分集的性能分析

研究了一个认知频谱共享系统,该系统是由一个次用户发射机、一个次用户接收机和一对主用户发射机和接收机组成,次用户接收机利用最大比合并策略提高系统性能。首先分析了来自主用户发射机的干扰对频谱共享系统中断概率的影响。经过一些运算得到了中断概率确切的封闭表达式,为评价系统关键参数的联合作用提供了有效手段,如次用户接收机天线的数目、次用户最大的发射功率、干扰温度限制以及主用户发射功率等。另外,还对系统中断概率的渐近性能进行了研究,揭示了次用户系统中断概率具有饱和现象。最后,分析了该系统分集复用增益。仿真结果表明,该中断概率确切封闭表达式与Monte Carlo仿真结果非常吻合,干扰温度约束和主用户的干扰对中断概率具有显著的不利影响,增加次用户接收机的天线数目可提高系统性能。     

感知频谱共享下的多天线功率优化分配算法研究

本文构建了一种在感知结果下具有多天线次用户的频谱共享模型,该模型由单入单出主用户对和多入单出认知用户对构成。当认知用户感知到主用户占用信道时,主用户向认知用户发送Message信息,使得认知用户发射端能够得知主用户对干扰总功率的限制要求,通过自适应地调整认知用户发射机的发射功率,以保证其对主用户不造成有害干扰;如果主用户未占用信道,认知用户立刻以最大发射功率占用信道。并分别在主用户存在和不存在两种情况下,优化认知用户发射机各天线的发射功率来最大化系统总的数据传输率。最后,通过数值仿真来验证推导出的功率分配策略,并对其进行分析和讨论。仿真结果表明:相比于机会频谱接入（Opportunistic Spectrum Access, OSA）和基于感知的频谱共享（Sensing-based spectrum sensing）模式,推导的功率分配策略在提出的模型中可以获得更高的信息传输率。      

基于认知无线电的双向中继网络的资源分配

针对认知无线电中的双向中继网络,研究了基于非完美感知的频谱机会式接入和频谱共享接入下的资源分配问题.与传统基于认知的双向中继的资源分配方法不同,提出的算法联合考虑了感知时间和次级系统的发射功率.在感知时间和发射功率满足条件的情况下,使次级系统的吞吐量最大.为了有效地保护主用户不受干扰,在每一跳都考虑了平均干扰功率约束,同时考虑次级系统总的功率约束.在非完美感知的频谱机会式接入和频谱共享接入机制下,新算法能够获得最优的感知时间和功率分配.最后,仿真比较了两种方案的性能,验证了新算法的有效性.     

多天线频谱共享认知网络保密中断概率分析

针对单输入多输出认知无线电网络,研究了瑞利衰落信道下采用最大比合并时保密中断性能。在所研究的系统中,次用户发射机发送机密信息给另一个次用户接收机,次用户接收机配备多个天线并且采用最大比例合并多个接收信号。同时,拥有多个天线窃听者也采用最大比合并方案偷听次用户发射机和次用户接收机之间传送的信息。频谱共享下次用户发射机工作时必须保证主用户的服务质量。推导了保密中断概率的精确表达式,分析了系统保密中断概率渐近性能。仿真结果验证了分析的正确性。     

频谱异构认知无线电中基于吞吐量降的空时频谱机会感知

在认知无线电(CR)中,频谱感知是实现动态频谱接入的关键技术之一。为适当保护主用户并最大化次级用户的性能,目前大部分相关工作均是用虚报概率和漏检概率作为感知度量来确定最佳感知参数的。但这种度量是用主次用户的碰撞概率来衡量次级用户对主用户的影响的,没有考虑干扰强度的影响,仅适合同构频谱环境;在不同位置次级用户有不同接入机会的异构频谱环境中,并不能最大化频谱利用率。为此,该文首先定义了吞吐量降,并提出在异构频谱环境下采用吞吐量降作为一种新的感知度量。吞吐量降是指由于次级用户占用授权频谱而导致主用户吞吐量下降的百分比。在衡量次级用户对主用户的影响时,它综合了主次用户的碰撞概率和干扰强度两个因素;其次,研究了以吞吐量降为约束的次级用户吞吐量优化问题。最后,数值仿真证实了该方案比目前几种传统方案的频谱利用率显著提高。     

基于非理想感知的认知无线电系统感知时间与频谱分配联合优化算法

针对非理想感知情况下感知时间与频谱分配联合优化问题,同时考虑漏检与主用户重新占用频谱两种场景所造成的主次用户碰撞,并通过量化主用户对认知用户的干扰,给出有无主用户存在时认知系统可获得的吞吐量。在总传输功率约束以及对主用户的最大干扰功率约束两个限制条件下,以最大化系统平均吞吐量为优化目标,给出感知时间与频谱分配联合优化算法。算法首先通过折半法搜索最优感知时间,在既定的感知时间下,将子信道分配给能获得最大平均吞吐量的认知用户,在此基础上,利用凸优化相关理论求得最优功率分配。仿真结果表明,本文所提算法相比于传统频谱分配算法系统平均吞吐量性能提升了10%左右。     

一种基于OFDM的多用户认知无线电系统联合资源分配算法

针对频谱共享环境,研究了采用OFDM调制方式的多用户认知无线电系统中,综合考虑自身发射功率约束与主用户干扰功率约束的资源分配问题.基于最大化认知用户和速率的优化目标,给出了连续比特条件下最优的多水位注水功率分配表达式;针对更实际的整数比特要求情况,通过基于相对增益因子RG的子信道选择机制与每个认知用户内多约束的贪婪比特与功率分配策略,来最大限度地提高频谱利用率.仿真结果表明:联合的子信道、功率与比特分配算法在不同的参数设置下均达到了良好的性能,在不影响主用户通信的前提下有效地提高了认知系统的频谱利用率.     

考虑恶意节点的CRN合作频谱感知方法

基于带有恶意节点的更为实际的频谱感知环境,研究了基于合作感知的频谱共享网络模型,次级用户将会根据合作感知结果动态地调整其发射功率。为了防止恶意节点对感知系统的感知性能造成严重影响,研究了如何进行合作感知以提高感知性能。在一定的检测概率和相关功率约束下,建立了一个以最大化次级网络的吞吐量为目标函数的优化问题。仿真实验首先突出说明了恶意节点数目对频谱感知影响重大,同时还表明无论是否存在恶意节点,提出的算法均可有效地计算出最优的感知时间和发射功率,且在降低最大干扰功率限制和最大发射功率限制时,网络的吞吐量是增大的。     

认知网络中时延最优的频谱决策方法

针对异构认知网络中频谱管理框架的频谱决策问题展开研究,综合考虑物理层频谱感知错误和无线信道衰落、主用户的多次打断带来的不利影响,提出了基于概率的和基于感知的具有负载均衡功能的频谱决策方法。对于基于概率的频谱决策方法,基于短时业务优先的调度策略采用动态规划方法给出了其平均等待时延的闭式解;对于基于感知的频谱决策方法,提出了允许其中断后可以重新搜索可用信道的决策方法,减少了等待主用户传输的时延,并在分析比较两者时延的基础上,提出了一种总体时延最优的频谱决策方法。此外,将认知网络的异构信道特性考虑分析框架中,理论分析较具一般性。仿真结果证实了方法的有效性。     

基于最小剩余约束空间的认知系统资源分配

针对授权网络和认知网络并存且均包含多个用户的下行链路场景,综合利用频谱共享与机会频谱接入两种动态频谱接入方式的特点,提出了基于"最小剩余约束空间"的认知系统资源分配算法。算法考虑发射功率约束与干扰功率约束的余量,每次将当前1信息比特分配给真正占用约束余量最小的用户,以达到认知用户和速率的最大化。仿真结果验证了当多认知用户采用OFDM时,所提算法在干扰功率小于主用户干扰门限的前提下达到了较好的性能。     

Cooperative Spectrum Sharing based on Amplify and Forward Relaying in Cognitive Radio Networks

In this paper, we consider a cognitive radio system in non-ideal fading wireless channels and propose a geometric approach based on cooperative amplify and forward relaying for the secondary users, which serves as an alternative way to ensure the primary user??s transmission and realize spectrum sharing. The whole system consists of a pair of primary transmitter and receiver and a pair of secondary transmitter (ST) and receiver. The key feature of the proposed approach is that ST acts as a half-relaying for the primary system by linearly combining the primary signal with the secondary signal and allocating fractions ?? and 1 ? ?? of the transmit power to the primary and secondary signals separately. We show that for a fixed ??, we can find a critical region for ST restricted in two-dimension where outage probability of the primary system is kept or lower than the case without spectrum sharing. The outage performance achieved by the secondary system is also derived. We get the optimal ?? and location for the secondary system when the secondary parameters are changeable. Finally, the bit error rate for both primary and secondary systems are derived in closed-form expressions. Simulation results illustrate that the proposed scheme can significantly realize spectrum sharing.     

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.

     

Underlay spectrum sharing with adaptive interference cancelation at primary and secondary receivers

Telecommunication Systems - For the underlay spectrum sharing, a primary transmitter (PT) and a secondary transmitter (ST) can transmit simultaneously to a primary receiver (PR) and a secondary...     

Impact of the secondary service transmit power constraint on the achievable capacity of spectrum sharing in rayleigh fading environment

The two main constraints on the transmit power allocation of the secondary service in a spectrum sharing scheme are the received interference threshold at the primary receiver, and the maximum transmit power of the secondary user. We obtain a critical system parameter which relates these two constraints and enables the system designer to eliminate the interference threshold constraint by adjusting the maximum transmit power of the secondary users. Eliminating the interference threshold constraint significantly reduces the system complexity by making the power allocation of the secondary service independent from the channel state information between the secondary transmitter and the primary receiver; thus removes the need for signaling between primary and secondary systems.     

Non-orthogonal multiple access protocol for overlay cognitive radio networks using spatial modulation and antenna selection

In this paper we propose a novel spectrum sharing protocol for overlay cognitive radio networks using non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), spatial modulation (SM) and antenna selection (AS). The proposed protocol allows a secondary transmitter (ST) to transmit simultaneously to both a primary receiver (PR) and a secondary receiver (SR) using SM. The usage of NOMA and SM will increase the spectral efficiency for both PR and SR with reduced detection complexity than the case without NOMA in which the detectors are required to jointly detect both SM symbols at each receiver. The application of AS at ST with regards to PR provides higher quality transmission for PR without affecting the performance of SR. The performance of the proposed protocol is investigated by derivations of upper bounds on the average symbol error probabilities at PR and SR and by Monte Carlo simulations. Analytical and simulation results show that the proposed protocol offers efficient spectrum utilization over spectrum sharing protocols proposed recently that uses SM – to convey the primary data to PR through the amplitude phase modulation technique and the secondary data to SR through the index of the active antenna.     

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.

     

Cognitive Heterogeneous Networks with Unreliable Backhaul Connections

To enhance the spectrum scarcity of cooperative heterogeneous networks (HetNets) with unreliable backhaul connections, we examine the impact of cognitive spectrum sharing over multiple small-cell transmitters in Nakagami-m fading channels. In this system, the secondary transmitters are connected to macro-cell via wireless backhaul links and communicate with the secondary receiver by sharing the same spectrum with the primary user. Integrating cognitive radio (CR) network into the system, we address the combined power constraints: 1) the peak interference power at the primary user and 2) the maximal transmit power at the secondary transmitters. In addition, to exclude the signaling overhead for exchanging channel-state-information (CSI) at the transmitters, the selection combining (SC) protocol is assumed to employ at the receivers. To evaluate the performance, we first derive the closed-form statistics of the end-to-end signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio, from which the exact outage probability, ergodic capacity and symbol error rate expressions are derived. To reveal further insights into the effective unreliable backhaul links and the diversity of fading parameters, the asymptotic expressions are also attained. The two interesting non-cooperative and Rayleigh fading scenarios are also investigated. Numerical results are conducted to verify the performance of the considered system via Monte-Carlo simulations.     

End‐to‐end security‐reliability analysis of multi‐hop cognitive relaying protocol with TAS/SC‐based primary communication,total interference constraint and asymmetric fading channels

In this paper, we analyze the tradeoff between outage probability (OP) and intercept probability (IP) for a multi‐hop relaying scheme in cognitive radio (CR) networks. In the proposed protocol, a multi‐antenna primary transmitter (PT) communicates with a multi‐antenna primary receiver (PR), using transmit antenna selection (TAS) / selection combining (SC) technique, while a secondary source attempts to transmit its data to a secondary destination via a multi‐hop approach in presence of a secondary eavesdropper. The secondary transmitters such as source and relays have to adjust their transmit power to satisfy total interference constraint given by PR. We consider an asymmetric fading channel model, where the secondary channels are Rician fading, while the remaining ones experience the Rayleigh fading. Moreover, an optimal interference allocation method is proposed to minimize OP of the primary network. For the secondary network, we derive exact expressions of end‐to‐end OP and IP which are verified by Monte Carlo simulations.     

On the Impacts of Channel Estimation Errors and Feedback Delay on the Ergodic Capacity for Spectrum Sharing Cognitive Radio

Spectrum sharing cognitive radio aims to improve the spectrum efficiency via sharing the spectrum band licensed to the primary user (PU) with the secondary user (SU) concurrently provided that the interference caused by the SU to the PU is limited. The channel state information (CSI) between the secondary transmitter (STx) and the primary receiver (PRx) is used by the STx to calculate the appropriate transmit power to limit the interference. We assume that this CSI is not only having channel estimation errors but also outdated due to feedback delay, which is different from existing studies. We derive closed-form expressions for the ergodic capacities of the SU with this imperfect CSI under the average interference power (AIP) constraint and the peak interference power (PIP) constraint. Illustrative results are presented to show the effects of the imperfect CSI. It is shown that the ergodic capacity of the SU is robust to the channel estimation errors and feedback delay under high feedback delay. It is also shown that decreasing the distance between STx and secondary receiver (SRx) or increasing the distance between STx and PRx can mitigate the impact of the imperfect CSI and significantly increase the ergodic capacity of the SU.