Energy-Efficient Optimal Power Allocation for Fading Cognitive Radio Channels: Ergodic Capacity, Outage Capacity, and Minimum-Rate Capacity

• Published in: IEEE transactions on wireless communications Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 2741 - 2755
• Main Authors: Fuhui Zhou, Beaulieu, Norman C., Zan Li, Jiangbo Si, Peihan Qi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.04.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Allocations; Channels; Cognitive radio; Energy efficiency; Energy management; ergodic capacity; Fading; fading channels; Green products; Interference; interference power constraint; Measurement; minimum rate capacity; Networks; Optimization techniques; outage capacity; power allocation strategies; Radio networks; Receivers & amplifiers; Resource management; spectrum sharing; Strategy; transmit power constraint; Transmitters; interference power constraint; fading channels; outage capacity; energy efficiency; ergodic capacity; Cognitive radio; transmit power constraint; minimum rate capacity; power allocation strategies; spectrum sharing
• ISSN: 1536-1276; 1558-2248
• DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2015.2509069

Green communications is an inevitable trend for future communication network design, especially for a cognitive radio network. Power allocation strategies are of crucial importance for green cognitive radio networks. However, energy-efficient power allocation strategies in green cognitive radio networks have not been fully studied. Energy efficiency maximization problems are analyzed in delay-insensitive cognitive radio, delay-sensitive cognitive radio, and simultaneously delay-insensitive and delay-sensitive cognitive radio, where a secondary user coexists with a primary user and the channels are fading. Using fractional programming and convex optimization techniques, energy-efficient optimal power allocation strategies are proposed subject to constraints on the average interference power, along with the peak/average transmit power. It is shown that the secondary user can achieve energy efficiency gains under the average transmit power constraint, in contrast to the peak transmit power constraint. Simulation results show that the fading of the channel between the primary user transmitter and the secondary user receiver and the fading of the channel between the secondary user transmitter and the primary user receiver are favorable to the secondary user with respect to the energy efficiency maximization of the secondary user, whereas the fading of the channel between the secondary user transmitter and the secondary user receiver is unfavorable to the secondary user.