Performance analysis of amplify-and-forward cognitive relay networks with interference power constraints over Nakagami-m fading channels

With the wide-spread wireless applications and services, the spectrum scarcity has become a challenging problem. Thus, it is necessary to find a solution to have more spectrum bands. One from these solutions is the cognitive relay network, where we can increase the spectrum utilization by combining the cognitive radio (CR) with cooperative spectrum sharing systems. In this paper, the performance of cognitive relay networks under interference power constraints from the primary user (PU) is studied. Here, the system models are studied by utilizing different scenarios. The first scenario is by using a single amplify-and-forward (AF) relay, and the second one is by using a single AF relay with selection diversity. Tabulated expressions for the outage probability (OP) are derived over independent and non-identically distributed Nakagami-m fading channels. Numerical results show that the cooperative spectrum sharing transmission with a single AF relay and selection diversity outperforms both the direct transmission and the transmission using a single AF relay for the underlay cognitive relay networks. Furthermore, the results show that the outage performance depends on the minimum fading severity parameters of the two hops of the secondary user (SU) and the OP decreases as the PU moves away from the SU network.

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