On the capacity of cognitive broadcast channels with opportunistic scheduling

In this paper, we investigate the fundamental capacity limit of the cognitive broadcast channels with opportunistic scheduling, where cognitive users CUs can share the same spectrum with the primary user PU as long as the interference introduced to the PU is kept at an acceptable level. In this context, we analyze the capacity gains offered by this opportunistic spectrum sharing in Rayleigh fading environment. Specifically, we analyze the outage and effective capacity of the selected CU, and derive closed-form expressions for these capacity metrics. We also obtain closed-form expressions for the asymptotic performance as the bandwidth approaches infinity. Numerical results are provided to corroborate our theoretical analysis and quantify the effects of the system parameters. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.