access icon free Cross-layer aware joint design of sensing and frame durations in cognitive radio networks

The tradeoff between increasing secondary users’ (SUs’) throughput and decreasing interferences to primary user (PU) is an important problem in cognitive radio networks. Joint design of sensing duration and frame duration has a crucial impact on both these two conflicting attributes but has not been studied yet. In this study, using a cross-layer approach, the authors investigate joint design of sensing duration and frame duration for the tradeoff. Specially, they consider that PU's traffic randomly changes within a secondary frame and multiple SUs contend to use the licensed channel based on widely used large/small-scale-backoff-based MAC protocols. By modelling more realistic PU's traffic, imperfect spectrum sensing in PHY and multiple SUs’ access contention in MAC, the authors reformulate the sensing-throughput tradeoff problem to maximise SUs’ throughput while restricting interference probability to PU under a tolerable level. Moreover, the optimal solution is analysed and a bi-dimensional search algorithm is presented. Simulation results show that the authors’ proposal achieves better throughput performance than conventional approaches. They also show how the optimal solution varies with received PU's signal-to-noise ratio and PU's traffic distribution.

Inspec keywords: radio spectrum management; search problems; radiofrequency interference; interference suppression; telecommunication traffic; wireless channels; statistical distributions; signal detection; cognitive radio; access protocols

Other keywords: sensing and frame duration cross-layer aware joint design; multiple secondary user throughput; PHY access contention; PU traffic distribution; interference probability; bidimensional search algorithm; cognitive radio network; large-scale-backoff-based MAC protocol; licensed channel; small-scale-backoff-based MAC protocol; secondary frame; received PU signal-to-noise ratio; multiple SU access contention; interference reduction; sensing-throughput tradeoff problem reformulation; primary user traffic random change; imperfect spectrum sensing

Subjects: Electromagnetic compatibility and interference; Radio links and equipment; Protocols; Other topics in statistics; Optimisation techniques; Combinatorial mathematics; Signal detection

http://iet.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journals/10.1049/iet-com.2015.1213
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