Adaptive Cooperative Decode-and-Forward Transmission with Power Allocation Under Interference Constraint

In this paper, we examine an adaptive decode-and-forward cooperative protocol under interference constraint. In the proposed protocol, relying on the obtained instantaneous signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs), a direct link or relay link is used to transmit data from the secondary source to the secondary destination. In addition, once the relay link is used, the secondary source and relay must adapt their transmit power to maximize the instantaneous SNR of this link. To evaluate the performance of the proposed protocol, we derive closed-form lower-bound and upper-bound expressions for the outage probability over Rayleigh fading channel. Finally, various Monte-Carlo simulations are presented to verify our analysis and compare the performance of the proposed protocol with that of the direct transmission protocol in underlay cognitive network.     

Performance Analysis of Incremental Amplify-and-Forward Relaying Protocols with Nth Best Partial Relay Selection Under Interference Constraint

In this paper, we investigate two incremental amplify-and-forward relaying protocols in cognitive underlay networks. In the proposed protocols, whenever the secondary destination cannot receive the secondary source’s signal successfully, it requests a retransmission from one of M secondary relays. In the first protocol, we assume that a secondary relay with the Nth best channel gain to the secondary source is used to forward the received signal to the secondary destination. In the second protocol, relying on the quality of channels between the secondary relay and secondary destination and between the secondary relay and primary user, the Nth best relay is chosen for the retransmission. We derive exact closed-form expressions of the outage probability and average number of time slots for both protocols over Rayleigh fading channel. Finally, these mathematical expressions are then verified by Monte Carlo simulations.     

A smart spectrum utilization approach using multiantenna‐based cognitive relays in cognitive radio network

Efficient spectrum utilization is a promising technique for a prolonged unused radio frequency (RF) spectrum in a wireless network. In this paper, an adaptive spectrum sharing cognitive radio (CR) network has been proposed consisting of a primary user (PU) and secondary user transmitter (SU ? Tx) that communicates with secondary user receiver (SU ? Rx) via multiantenna‐based proactive decode‐and‐forward (DF) relay selection scheme. In our model, strategically an adaptable joint venture on underlay/overlay protocol is defined based on channel occupancy using spectrum sensing technique. Here, secondary transmitters (i.e., source transmitter) continuously sense the PU activities by energy detector and can simultaneously transmit to secondary receivers. Depending on sensing result secondary transmitters automatically switches in underlay mode if PU is active otherwise operates in overlay mode. The advantage of this scheme is that the joint mode of transmission allows the SUs to maximize their transmission rate. The outage performance at SU ? Rx and closed‐form expressions of joint underlay/overlay protocol has been evaluated. The power control policies at different transmitter nodes are taken care of. With the same diversity order, a trade‐off between multiantenna and multirelay is shown. This comparison shows improvement in outage behavior when the count in relays surpasses the number of antennas. Finally, the analytical model of smart efficient spectrum utilization without harming license users in CR is validated by MATLAB simulation.     

Secrecy outage analysis in a hybrid cognitive relay network with energy harvesting

In this paper, we investigate the physical layer security of a hybrid cognitive relay network using an energy harvesting relay in presence of an eavesdropper. In the hybrid scheme, a secondary user (SU) as well as a cognitive relay works either in underlay or in overlay mode. In underlay, the transmit power of the SU as well as the relay is limited by the maximum acceptable interference at primary user (PU) receiver as required by an outage constraint of PU, a quality of service for PU. The secondary network consists of a decode and forward relay that harvests energy from radio frequency signal of secondary transmitter as well as PU transmitter to assist the SU in forwarding the information signal to the destination. A time switching relaying protocol is used at the relay. We evaluate the secrecy outage probability of secondary relay network assuming that channel state information of the interfering links from both the SU and relay transmitter to PU receiver is imperfect. Our results reveal the impact of imperfect channel state information, energy harvesting time, tolerable interference threshold, and PU outage constraint on the secrecy outage probability of SU.     

Cognitive Bidirectional Buffer-Aided DF Relay Networks: Protocol design and Power Allocation

In this paper, we consider bidirectional decode-and-forward buffer-aided relay selection and transmission power allocation schemes for underlay cognitive radio relay networks. First, a low complexity delay-constrained bidirectional relaying protocol is proposed. The proposed protocol maximizes the single-hop normalized sum of the primary network (PN) and secondary network (SN) rates and controls the maximum packet delay caused by physical layer buffering at relays. Second, optimal transmission power expressions that maximize the single-hop normalized sum rate are derived for each possible transmission mode. Simulation results are provided to evaluate the performance of the proposed relaying protocol and transmission power allocation scheme and compare their performance with that of the optimal scenario. Additionally, the impacts of several system parameters including maximum buffer size, interference threshold, maximum packet delay and number of relays on the network performance are also investigated. The results reveal that the proposed bidirectional relaying protocol and antenna transmission power allocation schemes introduce a satisfactory performance with much lower complexity compared to the optimal relay selection and power allocation schemes and provide an application dependent delay-controlling mechanism. It is also found that the network performance degrades as the delay constraint is more restricted until it matches the performance of conventional unbuffered relaying with delay constraints of three. Additionally, findings show that using buffer-aided relaying significantly enhances the SN performance while slightly weakens the performance of the PN.     

非理想SIC下SWIPT-CR-NOMA网络中断性能分析

针对采用无线携能通信的多中继底层协作认知非正交多址接入网络,提出一种两阶段中继选择策略。认知中继执行功率划分的无线携能通信协议为次级用户提供解码转发服务,其能量开销源于所采集到的能量。考虑了实际的非正交多址接入网络中,中继节点与次级用户均无法完全消除多址干扰,即无法实现理想连续干扰消除。在干扰阈值约束下,推导了非理想连续干扰消除下两次级用户端中断概率的精确表达式,并通过蒙特卡洛仿真验证其正确性。此外,定量分析了各系统相关参数（最大发射功率、干扰阈值、功率分配系数等）的选取对次级用户中断性能的具体影响。结果表明,在相同的系统参数设置下,所提方案次级用户中断性能远优于现有部分中继选择方案。      

基于IRS辅助的SWIPT物联网系统安全波束成形设计

为满足绿色万物互联的智能信号处理部署和物理层安全的新要求,针对基于智能反射面辅助的无线携能通信物联网系统中可持续能量供应紧缺问题,提出了一种安全波束成形设计方法。考虑保密速率、发射功率和IRS反射相移约束,以最大化能量采集器采集功率为目标,联合优化基站发射波束成形矩阵和干扰机协方差矩阵以及IRS相移,将优化问题建模为具有二次型约束的非凸二次型规划问题。利用松弛变量、半定松弛法、辅助变量和序列参数凸逼近法将非凸的二次型问题转化为等价的凸问题,并提出一种交替迭代优化算法获取原问题的可行解。仿真结果表明,所提算法能够快速收敛,且与基准方案相比能有效地提升性能。     

基于统计信道信息的智能反射面辅助物理层广播算法设计

智能反射面(Intelligent Reflective Surface,IRS)作为一种非常有前景的新型无线中继技术,可以改变无线传输环境,有效提升无线系统的频谱和能量效率.提出了一种基于统计信道的IRS辅助物理层广播系统的传输方案,在仅已知统计信道时,联合设计基站波束成形和IRS反射相位,最大化最小用户的各态历经容量.目标函数非连续,IRS的模一约束导致对应的优化问题非凸,对此首先得到了近似问题目标函数的闭式表达式,随后将其解耦为两个子问题:子问题1对应基站波束成形设计,可直接求得闭式解;子问题2对应IRS反射相位设计,该问题依然非凸,采用基于软件无线电的方法获得了该问题的近似最优解.仿真结果表明,基于统计信道信息的传输方案在降低系统开销和算法复杂度的同时能够有效提升IRS辅助的物理层广播系统性能.     

智能反射面辅助的毫米波MIMO系统波束成形设计

智能反射面(Intelligent Reflecting Surface, IRS),也被称为可重构智能表面(Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface, RIS)或大型智能表面(Large Intelligent Surface, LIS),通过重新配置无线通信传输环境,可以有效提高通信质量。考虑IRS辅助的毫米波多输入多输出(Multiple-Input Multiple-Output, MIMO)下行系统,通过采用流形优化(Manifold Optimization, MO)技术处理,协同优化IRS的无源波束成形、功率分配、预编码矩阵以及合并矩阵,以最大化多用户和速率。由于利用流形优化算法设计的最佳目标函数是非凸的,因此利用毫米波级联信道的内在结构,将非凸问题转换为更加容易处理的问题。仿真结果表明,所采用的MO方案能获得比最小均方误差(Minimum Mean Square Error, MMSE)方案以及随机相位方案更好的和速率性能。     

Performance analysis of two-way relay cooperation underlay cognitive radio networks based on WIPT

The two-way relay cooperation for underlay cognitive radio networks based on WIPT was presented,where secondary system adopted the two-way relay cooperative transmission.First,the relay adopted a power splitting protocol to harvest energy and to decode information transmitted by secondary users,then the relay forwarded information to two secondary users by using the harvested energy.Subsequently the exact expression of the outage probability,the ergodic capacity and energy efficiency of the secondary user system were derived.Finally,numerical simulation discusses the impact on the system performance with regard to secondary transmission power.The results reveal that the two-way relay cooperation effectively reduces the outage probability of data transmission.The capacity and energy efficiency of the system reaches optimal level when the power allocation coefficient is 0.5.     

智能反射面辅助的毫米波系统性能

毫米波通信具有丰富的频谱资源,可以支持多千兆的无线接入,但是毫米波通信具有非常高的路径损耗,容易发生阻塞现象,尤其是在密集的城市环境。为了解决这一问题,引入了智能反射面(IRS)这一新技术,来增加反射路径,提高毫米波通信的性能。主要探讨IRS辅助下的毫米波系统,推导出引入IRS的平均可达速率,并对比分析了这一技术与传统放大转发(AF)中继系统的性能差。分析表明当反射元件的数量达到一定值时,IRS系统的平均可达速率高于AF中继系统。并且得到了反射元件的最优值,来使IRS系统的能量效率最高。仿真验证了推导公式的正确性,并显示,当反射元件的数量取最优值时,随着可达速率的增大,系统的能量效率增大。     

End-to-End Link Reliable Energy Efficient Multipath Routing for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Among the many multipath routing protocols, the AOMDV is widely used in highly dynamic ad hoc networks because of its generic feature. Since the communicating nodes in AOMDV are prone to link failures and route breaks due to the selection of multiple routes between any source and destination pair based on minimal hop count which does not ensure end-to-end reliable data transmission. To overcome such problems, we propose a novel node disjoint multipath routing protocol called End-to-End Link Reliable Energy Efficient Multipath Routing (E2E-LREEMR) protocol by extending AOMDV. The E2E-LREEMR finds multiple link reliable energy efficient paths between any source and destination pair for data transmission using two metrics such as Path-Link Quality Estimator and Path-Node Energy Estimator. We evaluate the performance of E2E-LREEMR protocol using NS 2.34 with varying network flows under random way-point mobility model and compare it with AOMDV routing protocol in terms of Quality of Service metrics. When there is a hike in network flows, the E2E-LREEMR reduces 30.43 % of average end-to-end delay, 29.44 % of routing overhead, 32.65 % of packet loss ratio, 18.79 % of normalized routing overhead and 12.87 % of energy consumption. It also increases rather 10.26 % of packet delivery ratio and 6.96 % of throughput than AOMDV routing protocol.     

Performance analysis of intelligent reflecting surface-assisted mobile wireless networks subjected to generalized Gaussian noise

Different from the prior works, this paper presents the performance analysis of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted communication link in a static and mobile scenario impaired by Rayleigh fading and additive white generalized Gaussian noise (AWGGN). Precisely, the IRS is configured as an intelligent access point, and the mobile behavior of the nodes is characterized by the random waypoint (RWP) model. To this end, closed-form expressions of average bit error rate (BER), average channel capacity (ACC), and outage probability (OP) in both static and mobile scenarios are obtained. To gain further insight into the system performance at high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), asymptotic expressions are obtained. Moreover, the effect of the number of reflective elements ( $N$) and the shaping parameter ( $\lambda$) on the system performance is thoroughly studied. The results indicate that introduction of IRS leads to significant improvement in the overall system performance. The derived results are corroborated with Monte Carlo simulations.     

Detection of Wormhole Attack and Secure Path Selection in Wireless Sensor Network

In Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), securable data transmission is one of the most challenges. During the transmission between the source and a destination node, routing information of the particular path may be misbehaved by the particular nodes which are known as wormhole nodes/attackers. The paths which include the wormhole nodes are known as wormhole attacked paths. For improving security in WSN, these wormhole attacked paths should be identified. To achieve this, wormhole attack detection method and optimal or secure path selection are presented in this paper. Initially, ‘K’ paths or multiple paths are generated between source and destination using Ad-hoc On demand Multipath Distance Vector (AOMDV) routing protocol. Then, the source node identifies the wormhole attacked path by verifying the Detection Packet (DP) and Feedback Packet (FP) from the destination. After detecting the wormhole attacked paths, the source node selects the optimal path among the attacker free paths using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm. Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed approach improves energy efficiency and network lifetime of the network.

     

Impact of residual transmit RF impairments on energy harvesting relay selection systems

In this paper, we study the impact of residual transmit radio-frequency impairments (RTRIs) on a dual-hop energy-harvesting system in which a source and a destination both having multiple antennas communicate to each other with the help of single-antenna amplify-and-forward (AF) relays. The source and destination employ maximum ratio transmission (MRT) and maximal ratio combining (MRC), respectively, to exploit the benefits of using multiple antennas. To simplify the system complexity, we propose two partial relay selection (PRS) schemes (RSSs) that maximise the combined channel gains of the first hop (PRS-1 scheme) and the second hop (PRS-2 scheme), respectively. Both time-switching relaying (TSR) and power-splitting relaying (PSR) protocols are examined. In order to evaluate the system performance, the analytical expressions for outage probability and ergodic capacity are derived, and then the throughput expressions for delay-limited and delay-tolerant transmission modes are formulated. The analytical results are validated by Monte Carlo simulations. Our results show that: (1) The impact of RTRI can be significantly reduced by increasing the number of antennas and relays. (2) The PRS-1 scheme outperforms the PRS-2 scheme. (3) In the delay-limited mode, the TSR protocol performs better than the PSR protocol at high impairment levels, whereas in the delay-tolerant mode, the throughput of the PSR protocol is superior to that of the TSR protocol.     

A novel IEEE 802.11‐based MAC protocol supporting cooperative communications

Cooperative diversity is a transmission technique, where multiple terminals form a virtual antenna array that realizes spatial diversity gain in a distributed fashion. The concept of cooperation has already been introduced to MAC layer to design MAC protocol. But it does not take advantage of physical layer's cooperation. In this paper, we present a novel MAC protocol based on IEEE 802.11, called C‐MAC, which is able to support the basic building block of cooperative system. In other words, in C‐MAC, a source would invite a relay node into data transmission if there exits an available one. During data transmission, the source sends the signal to destination in the first time slot. The relay node will retransmit the overheard information to the destination in the second time slot. The destination combines two signals from the source and the helper to create the spatial diversity and robustness against channel fading. The C‐MAC is backward compatible to the legacy IEEE 802.11 system. The performance of C‐MAC mainly depends on physical layer's performance as it just provides the support for cooperation at the MAC layer. If the physical layer works well, C‐MAC would outperform IEEE 802.11 when considering packet error rate (PER). We also perform extensive simulation using ns‐2 with assumptive physical parameters. The results show that C‐MAC would outperform 802.11 if PER is over some threshold, e.g. when PER is 0.4, C‐MAC can achieve up to 11.5% higher throughput than IEEE 802.11. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Average bit error probability performance of intelligent reflecting surface-aided wireless communications over Hoyt fading

In this article, the performance of a wireless communication system with an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) panel installed between the transmitter and receiver is studied. The channel is considered to be the Hoyt faded and additive white Gaussian noise. Closed-form expressions for average bit error probability (ABEP) for both coherent Gray-coded rectangular quadrature amplitude modulation and non-coherent modulation schemes are presented. We apply the moment-generating function-based method for the derivation. In addition, asymptotic ABEP expressions are also obtained. Using asymptotic ABEP expressions, we obtained diversity order which is a function of the number of IRS elements. The effect of the number of IRS elements and fading parameters on the ABEP is studied. The ABEP performance improves with an increase in the number of reflecting elements but degrades with an increase in the fading severity. The accuracy of each analytical ABEP expression is verified by the simulation of the system considered herewith.     

Transmit antenna selection of correlated MIMO multiuser cognitive radio networks in Nakagami‐m fading channels

In this paper, we examine the impact of antenna correlation on transmit antenna selection with receive maximal ratio combining (TAS/MRC) in multiple‐input multiple‐output multiuser underlay cognitive radio network (MIMO‐MCN) over a Nakagami‐m fading environment. The secondary network under consideration consists of a single source and M destinations equipped with multiple correlated antennas at each node. The primary network composed of L primary users, each of which is equipped with multiple correlated antennas. For the considered underlay spectrum sharing paradigm, the transmission power of the proposed secondary system is limited by the peak interference limit on the primary network and the maximum transmission power at the secondary network. In particular, we derive exact closed‐form expressions for the outage probability and average symbol error rate of the proposed secondary system. To gain further insights, simple asymptotic closed‐form expressions for the outage probability and symbol error rate are provided to obtain the achievable diversity order and coding gain of the system. In addition, the impact of antenna correlation on the secondary user ergodic capacity has been investigated by deriving closed‐form expressions for the secondary user capacity. The derived analytical formulas herein are supported by numerical and simulation results to clarify the main contributions. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Decode and forward polar coding for Half-duplex two-relay channels based on multilevel construction

Polar codes represent an emerging class of error-correcting codes with power to approach the capacity of the physically degraded relay channel and relevant coding schemes have been proposed in the literature. This paper aims to design new cooperative decode-and-forward (DF) polar coding schemes for half-duplex two-relay channel based on the Plotkin’s construction illustrating their performances gain. In these schemes, we consider the use of time-division process in transmission. The source node transmits its polar-coded information to both relays and the destination nodes during the first time slot. Each relay node receives the data from the source and processes it using the DF protocol. For the second transmission period, each relay first decodes the source signal then after reconstruction of the information reduction matrix based on the multilevel characteristics of polar codes, the extracted data at each relay are recoded using another polar code and transmitted to the destination. At destination node, the signals received from each relay and source nodes are processed by using multi-joint successive cancellation decoding for retrieving the original information bits. We demonstrate via simulation results that by carefully constructed polarisation matrix at each relay node, we can achieve the theoretical capacity in the half-duplex relay channel.     

Energy Efficient QoS Aware Hierarchical KF-MAC Routing Protocol in Manet

The paper proposes an energy efficient quality of services (QoS) aware hierarchical KF-MAC routing protocol in mobile ad-hoc networks. The proposed KF-MAC (K-means cluster formation firefly cluster head selection based MAC routing) protocol reduces the concentration of QoS parameters when the node transmits data from source to destination. At first, K-means clustering technique is utilized for clustering the network into nodes. Then the clustered nodes are classified and optimized by the firefly optimization algorithm to find cluster heads for the clustered nodes. The transmission of data begins in the network nodes and TDMA based MAC routing does communication. The observation on KF-MAC protocol performs well for QoS parameters such as bandwidth, delay, bit error rate and jitter. The evaluation of proposed protocol based on a simulation study concludes that the proposed protocol provides a better result in contrast to the existing fuzzy based energy aware routing protocol and modified dynamic source routing protocol. With KF-MAC protocol, the collision free data transmission with low average energy consumption is achieved.