Channel Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a cognitive radio network in which the secondary users are allowed to share the spectrum with the primary users as long as the interference caused by the secondary users to the primary users is below a specified level. Both the primary users and secondary users access the common channel by way of transmission schedules. The channel model includes realistic features such as receiver noise, fading, and multiuser interference. Our primary performance measure is network throughput, which is the average number of packets that are successfully received per time slot. For a given level of guaranteed performance for each primary user, our goal is to determine the transmission schedule for the secondary users that maximizes their throughput. Our method exploits the multi-packet reception capability to improve throughput performance. We show that our method for scheduling can allow significant additional throughput for the secondary users, while keeping the impact of interference to the primary users to the specified level.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA535661

Entities

People

  • Anthony Ephremides
  • Gam D. Nguyen
  • Jeffrey E. Wieselthier
  • Sastry Kompella

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Channel Models
  • Cognitive Radio
  • Communication Systems
  • Computational Complexity
  • Detection
  • Engineering
  • Far Field
  • Information Systems
  • Military Research
  • Multiple Access
  • Near Field
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Spectra
  • Throughput

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Database Systems and Applications