Hybrid cooperative spectrum sharing for cognitive radio networks: A contract-based approach

• Main Authors: Zhang, Songwei, Mu, Xiaomin, Wang, Ning, Zhang, Dalong, Han, Gangtao
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Cognitive radio; Switching theory
• ISSN: 0094-243X; 1551-7616
• DOI: 10.1063/1.5041143

In order to improve the spectral efficiency, a contract-based hybrid cooperative spectrum sharing approach is proposed in this paper, in which multiple primary users (PUs) and multiple secondary users (SUs) share the primary channels in a hybrid manner. Specifically, the SUs switch their transmission mode between underlay and overlay based on the second-order statistics of the primary links. The average transmission rates of PUs and SUs are analyzed for the two transmission modes, and an optimization problem is formulated to maximize the utility of PUs under the constraint that the utility of SUs is nonnegative, which is further solved by a contract-based approach in global statistical channel statistical information (S-CSI) scenarios and local S-CSI scenarios, individually. Numerical results show that the average transmission rate of the PUs is significantly improved by using the proposed method in both of the two scenarios, and in the meantime, the SUs can achieve a good average rate, especially while the SUs have the same number of the PUs in the local S-CSI scenarios.