8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Probability Constrained Robust Multicast Beamforming in Cognitive Radio Network

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694685,
        author={Xin Liu and Haoqi Li and Haibin Wang},
        title={Probability Constrained Robust Multicast Beamforming in Cognitive Radio Network},
        proceedings={8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2013},
        month={11},
        keywords={cognitive radio multicast beamforming probability constraints successive convex approximation},
        doi={10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694685}
    }
    
  • Xin Liu
    Haoqi Li
    Haibin Wang
    Year: 2013
    Probability Constrained Robust Multicast Beamforming in Cognitive Radio Network
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694685
Xin Liu1,*, Haoqi Li1, Haibin Wang1
  • 1: Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
*Contact email: liuxin111@mails.ucas.ac.cn

Abstract

In this paper, we design a probability constrained robust multicast beamforming in cognitive radio network. We adopt the Bernstein inequality to approximate the probability constraints into their corresponding deterministic forms. Since the approximate problem is still nonconvex, we then employ a successive convex approximation (SCA) technique to transfer it into an sequence SOCP and prove the SCA algorithm converges to a stationary point. Numerical simulations are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods, and show its superiority compared with the conventional worst-case robust design.