Optimal power allocation for cognitive relay networks

In this paper, we study the power allocation of suggested cognitive relay network model to minimize the system outage probability subject to total and individual power constraints for cognitive relays and subject to interference constraints for primary user nodes. In suggested model, a source is assisted by cognitive relay nodes which allow coexisting with primary user nodes by imposing severe constraints on the transmission power so that they operate below the noise floor of primary nodes. A relay transmission scheme, namely, amplify-and-forward (AF) is considered. We present an optimal power allocation (OPA) scheme to minimize the system outage probability, based on complete channel state information among the source, destination and relay nodes and mean channel gains between primary user nodes and cognitive relays. The analytical power allocation strategies have been validated through numerical simulations. The results indicate that the AF with OPA has significantly better outage behavior and average throughput than AF scheme.

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