Effective Capacity Analysis of Cognitive Radio Channels for Quality of Service Provisioning

In this paper, cognitive transmission under quality of service (QoS) constraints is studied. In the cognitive radio channel model, it is assumed that the secondary transmitter sends the data at two different average power levels, depending on the activity of the primary users, which is determined by channel sensing performed by the secondary users. A state-transition model is constructed for this cognitive transmission channel. Statistical limitations on the buffer lengths are imposed to take into account the QoS constraints. The maximum throughput under these statistical QoS constraints is identified by finding the effective capacity of the cognitive radio channel. This analysis is conducted for fixed-power/fixed-rate, fixed-power/variable-rate, and variable-power/variable-rate transmission schemes under different assumptions on the availability of channel side information (CSI) at the transmitter. The impact upon the effective capacity of several system parameters, including channel...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: GLOBECOM
• Authors: Sami Akin, Mustafa Cenk Gursoy
• Keywords: Cognitive Radio Channel, Cognitive Transmission, Communications, GLOBECOM 2009, QoS Constraints