Primary behaviour-based energy harvesting multihop cognitive radio network
In this study, a multihop transmission scheme in cognitive environment is investigated. Several number of decode and forward relays are deployed between the secondary source and the secondary destination. All the nodes harvest energy using a time splitting-based relaying scheme from radio-frequency signal of a primary beacon (PB). All the nodes use harvested energy to transmit data from a node to its next node. The maximum transmit power of any secondary node is limited by interference constraint at a primary receiver. The presence of PB is considered in the form of a regular periodic pattern. An expression for signal-to-noise ratio and ergodic capacity at each secondary node in the multihop network are derived. A closed form expression for the outage probability (OP) of the secondary network is derived for transient and steady-state condition in two different scenarios of arrival time period of PB (). The closed-form expression for the OP of the secondary network is validated with the simulation results for different system parameters such as harvesting efficiency, harvesting time, the number of SRs, the transmission power of PB. An optimum value of the presence duration of PB within the time period is also estimated. Further, impact of imperfect channel state information (CSI) of interfering links between secondary transmitting nodes and primary receiver is investigated on secondary OP and compared with the case of perfect CSI.