8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

On the Study of Outage Performance for Interference Alignment (IA) in Cognitive Relay Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694568,
        author={Xing Zhang and Jia Xing and Wenbo Wang},
        title={On the Study of Outage Performance for Interference Alignment (IA) in Cognitive Relay Networks},
        proceedings={8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2013},
        month={11},
        keywords={cognitive relay networks interference alignment},
        doi={10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694568}
    }
    
  • Xing Zhang
    Jia Xing
    Wenbo Wang
    Year: 2013
    On the Study of Outage Performance for Interference Alignment (IA) in Cognitive Relay Networks
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694568
Xing Zhang,*, Jia Xing1, Wenbo Wang1
  • 1: BUPT
*Contact email: hszhang@bupt.edu.cn

Abstract

In cognitive radio systems, interference between primary users and secondary users greatly affects the system performance, which is an issue worth studying. Recently, interference alignment (IA) has been proposed as an effective method to deal with the interference among multiple users. In this paper, we apply distributed interference alignment to a cognitive relay network (CRN) and study the outage performance for the secondary system. Simulation results show that for cognitive relay networks, interference alignment can greatly improve the outage performance of the secondary system, especially in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) condition, which demonstrates that IA is a promising solution to interference avoidance in cognitive relay networks.