Joint Beamforming and Power Allocation for Multiple Access Channels in Cognitive Radio Networks

A cognitive radio (CR) network refers to a secondary network operating in a frequency band originally licensed/allocated to a primary network consisting of one or multiple primary users (PUs). A fundamental challenge for realizing such a system is to ensure the quality of service (QoS) of the PUs as...

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Published in:IEEE journal on selected areas in communications 2008-01, Vol.26 (1), p.38-51
Main Authors: Zhang, Lan, Liang, Ying-Chang, Xin, Yan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Allocations
Array signal processing
Channels
Chromium
Cognitive radio
Constraint optimization
Decision feedback equalizers
Interference constraints
Mathematical models
Maximization
Multiple access
Networks
Operations research
Optimization
Quality of service
Radio spectrum management
Signal to noise ratio
Studies
Throughput
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Summary:A cognitive radio (CR) network refers to a secondary network operating in a frequency band originally licensed/allocated to a primary network consisting of one or multiple primary users (PUs). A fundamental challenge for realizing such a system is to ensure the quality of service (QoS) of the PUs as well as to maximize the throughput or ensure the QoS, such as signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratios (SINRs), of the secondary users (SUs). In this paper, we study single-input multiple output multiple access channels (SIMO-MAC) for the CR network. Subject to interference constraints for the PUs as well as peak power constraints for the SUs, two optimization problems involving a joint beamforming and power allocation for the CR network are considered: the sum-rate maximization problem and the SINR balancing problem. For the sum-rate maximization problem, zero-forcing based decision feedback equalizers are used to decouple the SIMO-MAC, and a capped multi-level (CML) water-filling algorithm is proposed to maximize the achievable sum-rate of the SUs for the single PU case. When multiple PUs exist, a recursive decoupled power allocation algorithm is proposed to derive the optimal power allocation solution. For the SINR balancing problem, it is shown that, using linear minimum mean-square-error receivers, each of the interference constraints and peak power constraints can be completely decoupled, and thus the multi-constraint optimization problem can be solved through multiple single-constraint sub-problems. Theoretical analysis for the proposed algorithms is presented, together with numerical simulations which compare the performances of different power allocation schemes.
ISSN:0733-8716
1558-0008
DOI:10.1109/JSAC.2008.080105