Impact of Primary User Traffic on Adaptive Transmission for Cognitive Radio with Partial Relay Selection

In a cognitive relay system, the secondary user is permitted to transmit data via a relay when licensed frequency bands are detected to be free. Previous studies mainly focus on reducing or limiting the interference of the secondary transmission to the primary users. On the other hand, however, the primary user traffic also affects the data transmission performance of the secondary users. In this paper, we mainly investigate the impact of the primary user traffic on the bit error rate (BER) of the secondary transmission, when the secondary user adopts adaptive transmission with a partially selected relay. In addition, the average collision time and the average collision probability have been used to measure the interference level caused by the secondary transmission to the primary users. Based on some selected numerical results, we can see that the primary user traffic seriously degrades the average BER. The worse-link partial selection can perform almost as well as the global selection when the channel conditions of the source-relay links and the relay-destination links are quite different. Although the relay selection improves the spectral efficiency of the secondary transmission, numerical results show that it only has slight impact on the overall average BER, which implies that the robustness of the system will not be affected by the relay selection.

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