Jointly Optimal Sensing and Resource Allocation for Multiuser Overlay Cognitive Radios

Autor: Lopez-Ramos, Luis M., Marques, Antonio G., Ramos, Javier
Rok vydání: 2012
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: Successful deployment of cognitive radios requires efficient sensing of the spectrum and dynamic adaptation of the available resources according to the sensed (imperfect) information. While most works design these two tasks separately, in this paper we address them jointly. In particular, we investigate an overlay cognitive radio with multiple secondary users that access orthogonally a set of frequency bands originally devoted to primary users. The schemes are designed to minimize the cost of sensing, maximize the performance of the secondary users (weighted sum rate), and limit the probability of interfering the primary users. The joint design is addressed using dynamic programming and nonlinear optimization techniques. A two-step strategy that first finds the optimal resource allocation for any sensing scheme and then uses that solution as input to solve for the optimal sensing policy is implemented. The two-step strategy is optimal, gives rise to intuitive optimal policies, and entails a computational complexity much lower than that required to solve the original formulation.
Comment: This work is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, under FPU Grant AP2010-1050. This paper has been submitted for publication to the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. Parts of this paper were presented at CROWNCOM 2012
Databáze: arXiv