On the statistics of cognitive radio capacity in shadowing and fast fading environments

Muhammad  Fainan Hanif; Peter J.  Smith; Mansoor Shaﬁ

4th International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications

Research Article

On the statistics of cognitive radio capacity in shadowing and fast fading environments

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    title={On the statistics of cognitive radio capacity in shadowing and fast fading environments},
    proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CROWNCOM},
    year={2009},
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Muhammad Fainan Hanif
Peter J. Smith
Mansoor Shaﬁ
Year: 2009
On the statistics of cognitive radio capacity in shadowing and fast fading environments
CROWNCOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CROWNCOM.2009.5189035

Muhammad Fainan Hanif¹^,*, Peter J. Smith¹^,*, Mansoor Shaﬁ²^,*

1: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
2: Telecom New Zealand, PO Box 293, Wellington, New Zealand.

*Contact email: mfh21@student.canterbury.ac.nz, p.smith@elec.canterbury.ac.nz, mansoor.shaﬁ@telecom.co.nz

Abstract

In this paper we consider the capacity of the cognitive radio (CR) channel in a fading environment under a ldquolow interference regimerdquo. This capacity depends critically on a power loss parameter, alpha, which governs how much transmit power the CR dedicates to relaying the primary message. We derive a simple, accurate approximation to alpha which gives considerable insight into system capacity. We also investigate the effects of system parameters and propagation environment on alpha and the CR capacity. In all cases, the use of the approximation is shown to be extremely accurate. Finally, we derive the probability that the ldquolow interference regimerdquo holds and demonstrate that this is the dominant case, especially in practical CR deployment scenarios.

Published: 2009-08-04
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CROWNCOM.2009.5189035