5th International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications

Research Article

Polarization orthogonality for the co-existence of wideband fading cognitive networks

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.CROWNCOM2010.9207,
        author={J.-M. Dricot and G. Ferrari and F. Quitin and A. Panahandeh and Fr. Horlin and Ph. De Doncker},
        title={Polarization orthogonality for the co-existence of wideband fading cognitive networks},
        proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CROWNCOM},
        year={2010},
        month={9},
        keywords={Interference Narrowband Probabilistic logic Receivers Signal to noise ratio Throughput Wideband},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.CROWNCOM2010.9207}
    }
    
  • J.-M. Dricot
    G. Ferrari
    F. Quitin
    A. Panahandeh
    Fr. Horlin
    Ph. De Doncker
    Year: 2010
    Polarization orthogonality for the co-existence of wideband fading cognitive networks
    CROWNCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.CROWNCOM2010.9207
J.-M. Dricot1,*, G. Ferrari2,*, F. Quitin1,3, A. Panahandeh1,3, Fr. Horlin1, Ph. De Doncker1
  • 1: Université Libre de Bruxelles, OPERA Department, Wireless Communications Group
  • 2: University of Parma, Italy, Dept. of Information Eng., WASN Lab
  • 3: Université Catholique de Louvain, Electrical Engineering, ICTEAM
*Contact email: jdricot@ulb.ac.be, gianluigi.ferrari@unipr.it

Abstract

Orthogonality techniques for cognitive radio networks are important since they enable the primary and secondary terminals to efficiently share the spectral resources in the same location simultaneously. In this paper, we investigate a simple, yet powerful, orthogonality scheme by exploiting the polarimetric dimension. More precisely, we evaluate a scenario where the cognitive terminals use cross-polarized communications in a communication channel subject to wideband (or narrowband) Rayleigh fading. A primary exclusive region in which cognitive terminals are not allowed to transmit is defined and its radius is computed. Finally, the overall performance of the proposed solution is evaluated in terms of network throughput.