Title
Application of Cooperative Diversity to Cognitive Radio Leasing: Model and Analytical Characterization of Resource Gains
Abstract
This paper studies mutual information in a novel scenario combining cooperative diversity and cognitive radio based on spectrum leasing. In the scenario there is a primary transmitter subject to random channel fading, with full spectrum rights available, and a secondary transmitter without any spectrum rights, which offers its cooperation to the primary transmitter in exchange for a share of the resulting resource gains. Two decision-making schemes, based on different levels of channel knowledge, are considered in the primary transmitter. These are knowledge of the statistics of random fading (averages) and full knowledge of instantaneous channel state. The contributions of this paper are the radio leasing scenario itself, which, unlike previous approaches in cognitive radio, is not based on game theory, and the statistical characterization of the resource gains achieved in this scenario using cooperative diversity for spectrum leasing under diverse channel conditions and the aforementioned decision-making schemes. Analytical expressions are obtained for the probability of cooperation, the mutual information probability density function and its average, and the proportion of resource gains achieved for the statistical and instantaneous channel knowledge schemes. We identify the conditions for resource gains: for statistical channel knowledge to suffice, the primary link must be of low quality, whereas for instantaneous channel knowledge, although resource gains are achieved in any situation, they increase as the primary channel gets worse.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TWC.2012.113012.110842
Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions
Keywords
Field
DocType
cognitive radio,cooperative communication,decision making,diversity reception,fading channels,game theory,probability,radio spectrum management,radio transmitters,random processes,statistical analysis,analytical characterization,cognitive radio leasing,cooperative diversity,decision-making schemes,diverse channel conditions,game theory,instantaneous channel knowledge schemes,instantaneous channel state,mutual information probability density function,primary transmitter,radio leasing scenario itself,random channel fading,random fading,resource gains,secondary transmitter,spectrum leasing,spectrum rights,statistical channel knowledge schemes,statistical characterization,Wireless networks,cognitive radio,cooperative diversity
Transmitter,Primary channel,Mathematical optimization,Telecommunications,Fading,Cooperative diversity,Communication channel,Computer network,Mutual information,Game theory,Mathematics,Cognitive radio
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
1
1536-1276
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.37
10
Authors
7