Cognitive AF relay schemes for uplink transmission in macrocellular networks

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Abstract

Cognitive radio has been proposed to improve the spectrum utilization by allowing the unlicensed secondary users (SUs) to access the spectrum resources licensed to the primary users (PUs) opportunistically. However, the cognitive radio has rarely been employed to enhance the system performance of the licensed PUs that endure spectrum scarcity. To improve the outage-probability quality-of-service (QoS) of the mobile station (MS) in macrocellular networks, we propose two Cognitive Amplify-and-forward Relay (CAR) schemes in this paper. In our proposed CAR schemes, the MS and relay utilize both the licensed spectrum band (LSB) provided to the macrocellular network and the opportunistic spectrum band (OSB) discovered by the base stations. Simulation results show that compared with the conventional transmission schemes without cognitive relay, our proposals can effectively improve the outage performance of MS in macrocellular networks by exploiting both the space diversity and spectrum diversity.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Fall 2012 - Proceedings
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event76th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Fall 2012 - Quebec City, QC, Canada
Duration: 3 Sep 20126 Sep 2012

Publication series

NameIEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
ISSN (Print)1550-2252

Conference

Conference76th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Fall 2012
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityQuebec City, QC
Period3/09/126/09/12

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