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Channel modeling based on interference temperature in underlay cognitive wireless networks

2008 IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, 2008

Cognitive radio based dynamic spectrum access network is emerging as a technology to address spectrum scarcity. In this study, we assume that the channel is licensed to some primary (licensed) operator. We consider a sensor network with cognitive radio capability that acts as a secondary (unlicensed) network and uses the channel in underlay mode. The secondary network uses interference temperature model [1] to ensure that the interference to the primary devices remain below a predefined threshold. We use Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to model the interference temperature dynamics of a primary channel. The HMM is trained using Baum-Welch procedure. The trained HMM is shown to be statistically stable. Secondary nodes use this trained HMM to predict the interference temperature of the channel in future time slots and computes the value of Channel Availability Metric (CAM) for the channel. CAM is used by secondary nodes to select a primary channel for transmission. Results of application of such trained HMMs in channel selection in multi-channel wireless network are presented.

Statistical Modelling of Dynamic Interference Threshold and Its Effect on Network Capacity

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

In this paper, we present the case of utilizing interference temperature (IT) as a dynamic quantity rather than as a fixed quantity in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) based spectrum sharing systems. The fundamental idea here is to reflect the changing capacity demand of primary user (PU) over time in setting the interference power threshold for secondary user (SU). This type of dynamic IT will allow the SU to opportunistically have higher transmit power during relaxed IT period, thereby resulting in higher network capacity. The cognitive radio network (CRN) considered in this paper has an underlay network configuration in which the available spectrum of the PU is accessed concurrently by SU provided that the interference power at the PU receiver from SU is under a certain power threshold. This power threshold is set to maintain and guarantee a certain level of quality of service (QoS) for PU network. Theoretical expressions for outage probability and mean capacity for SU network are derived, and validated with simulation results, and it is observed that utilizing dynamic IT results in high network performance gains as compared to utilizing a fixed IT in cognitive radio system.

Impact of Secondary User Interference on Primary Network in Cognitive Radio Systems

2018

Most of the research in cognitive radio field is primarily focused on finding and improving secondary user (SU) performance parameters such as bit error rate, outage probability and capacity etc. Less attention is being paid towards the other side of the network that is the primary network which is under interference from SU. Also, it is the primary user (PU) that decides upon the interference temperature constraint for power adaptation to maintain a certain level of quality of service while providing access to SUs. However, given the random nature of wireless communication, interference temperature can be regulated dynamically to overcome the bottlenecks in entire network performance. In order to do so, we need to analyze the primary network carefully. This study tries to fill this gap by analytically finding the closed form theoretical expressions for signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR), mean SINR, instantaneous capacity, mean capacity and outage probability of PU, while...

Interference Modeling of Cognitive Radio Networks

VTC Spring 2008 - IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, 2008

Cognitive radio (secondary) networks have been proposed as means to improve the spectrum utilization. A secondary network can reuse the spectrum of a primary network under the condition that the primary services are not harmfully interrupted. In this paper, we study the distribution of the interference power at a primary receiver when the interfering secondary terminals are distributed in a Poisson field. We assume that a secondary terminal is able to cease its transmission if it is within a distance of R to the primary receiver. We derive a general formula for the characteristic function of the random interference generated by such a secondary network. With this general formula we investigate the impacts of R, shadowing, and small scale fading on the probability density function (PDF) of the interference power. We find that when there is no interference region (R = 0), the interference PDFs follow heavy-tailed α-stable distributions. In case that a proper interference region is defined by a positive value of R, the tails of the interference power PDFs can be significantly shortened. Moreover, the impacts of shadowing and small scale fading on the interference PDFs are studied and the small scale fading is found to be beneficial in terms of reducing the mean value and outage probability of the interference power.

Impact of Interference from Primary User on the Performance of Cognitive Radio Networks

2012

This thesis report presents background knowledge about cognitive radio network (CRN) and investigates performance of underlay cognitive radio networks based on an adaptive power allocation policy of secondary transmitter (SU-Tx). In particular, it has been assumed that SU-Tx and primary user transmitter (PU-Tx) are equipped with a single antenna, while the corresponding receivers are equipped with multiple antennas. Additionally, SU-Tx operates under the joint constraint of its peak transmission power and outage constraint of the primary network. The probability density function (PDF) and cumulative density function (CDF) of the signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) of SU over Rayleigh fading channel are derived. Using these two functions, a closed-form expression for the outage probability and an approximate expression for ergodic capacity of the considered system are obtained. Matlab simulation results are provided to validate the correctness of the analyses. The results s...

Performance Analysis of Cognitive Radio Networks Based on Sensing and Secondary-to-Primary Interference

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2000

In this paper we study the system level performance of cognitive radio (CR) networks under average received interference power constraints. Under the assumption of uniform node placements and a simple power control scheme, we derive the closed-form expression for the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the maximum allowable transmit power of the target CR transmitter. We further study two CR network scenarios: a CR based central access network and a CR assisted virtual multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network. The average uplink capacities of both networks are derived and analyzed, with an emphasis on understanding the effect of the numbers of primary users and CR users on the capacity. Numerical and simulation results demonstrate that the CR based central access network is more suitable for less-populated rural areas where a lower density of primary receivers is expected, while the CR assisted virtual MIMO network performs better in urban environments with a dense population of mobile CR users.

Interference Temperature Measurements and Spectrum Occupancy Evaluation in the Context of Cognitive Radio

Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

This paper presents a refined radio spectrum measurement platform specifically designed for spectrum occupancy surveys in the context of Cognitive radio. Cognitive radio permits the opportunistic usage of licensed bands by unlicensed users without causing harmful interference to the licensed user. In this work, a study based on the measurement of the 800 MHz to 2.4 GHz frequency band at two different locations inside Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru campus, Malaysia is presented. Two Tektronix RSA306B spectrum analyzer are set up to conduct simultaneous measurements at different locations for a 24 hours period. The analysis conducted in this work is based on the real spectrum data acquired from environment in the experimental set up. Busy and idle channels were identified. The channels subject to adjacent-channel interference were also identified, and the impact of the detection threshold used to detect channel activities was also discussed. The consistency of the observed channel occupation over a range of thresholds and a sudden drop has good characteristics in determining an appropriate threshold needed in order to avoid interference.

Integrating Cognitive Radio with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: An Overview

Sensors, 2021

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) demand technologies so they can not only fly autonomously, but also communicate with base stations, flight controllers, computers, devices, or even other UAVs. Still, UAVs usually operate within unlicensed spectrum bands, competing against the increasing number of mobile devices and other wireless networks. Combining UAVs with Cognitive Radio (CR) may increase their general communication performance, thus allowing them to execute missions where the conventional UAVs face limitations. CR provides a smart wireless communication which, instead of using a transmission frequency defined in the hardware, uses software transmission. CR smartly uses free transmission channels and/or chooses them according to application’s requirements. Moreover, CR is considered a key enabler for deploying technologies that require high connectivity, such as Smart Cities, 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), and the Internet of Flying Things (IoFT). This paper presents an overview o...

Effects of channel SNR in mobile cognitive radios and coexisting deployment of cognitive wireless sensor networks

2010

In this paper, we describe the cognitive radios sharing the spectrum with licensed users and its effects on operational coexistence with unlicensed users. Due to the unlicensed spectrum band growing needs and usage by many IEEE 802.11 protocols, normal wireless radio operation sees high interference leading to high error rates on operational environments. We study the licensed bands and the characteristics of the unlicensed bands in general and more specific to radio characterization of individual radios and cognitive deployment of sensor networks and its effect on lifetime. The cognitive radio signals detection algorithm for this probabilistic model for the unlicensed users, uses a mobility model which takes into account the threshold variable ratio Eb/No and also calculates the lower-bound of the combined value of secondary user interference for overlapping frequencies with the primary user. By using simulation, we detect the primary user when the radio frequencies are known a priori and compare it when the frequencies are unknown. In our analysis we exploit the similarity measure seen at each sub-channel frequency, which are due to multiple paths of the same reflected signal by maximizing the correlated information of the correlation matrix. For the general case the co-variance matrix for blind source separation, we use ICA de-correlation methods and show that cognitive radio can efficiently identify users in complex situations. The effects of large deployment and cognitive sensor network are studied for a family of 802.15.4 radios adapting to power-aware algorithms.