《Sensing Confidence Level Based Joint Spectrum and Power Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks》.pdf

Sensing Confidence Level-Based Joint Spectrum and Power Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks Guoru Ding, Qihui Wu Jinlong Wang Wireless Personal Communications An International Journal ISSN 0929-6212 Wireless Pers Commun DOI 10.1007/s112 -013-1013-3 1 23 Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by Springer Science +Business Media New York. This e-offprint is for personal use only and shall not be self- archived in electronic repositories. If you wish to self-archive your work, please use the accepted author’s version for posting to your own website or your institution’s repository. You may further deposit the accepted author’s version on a funder’s repository at a funder’s request, provided it is not made publicly available until 12 months after publication. 1 23 Authors personal copy Wireless Pers Commun DOI 10.1007/s11277-013-1013-3 Sensing Confidence Level-Based Joint Spectrum and Power Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks Guoru Ding · Qihui Wu · Jinlong Wang © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 Abstract Cognitive radio (CR) has been extensively investigated in the past decade to tackle the contradiction between wireless spectrum shortage and underutilization. In this paper, we present a unified analytical framework to design PHY-layer spectrum sensing and MAC-layer resource scheduling jointly for CR networks. A key parameter, named sensing confidence level (SCL), is introduced to characterize the presence of imperfect sensing, and bridge the designs between kinds of spectrum sensing schemes and resource allocation algorithms. The SCL-based joint design of spectrum and power allocation is formulated as a mixed integer non-linear optimization problem and Lagrange duality theory is introduced to make the problem tractable. The proposed joi