Joint channel and power allocation scheme for cognitive wireless networks

Cognitive radio (CR) is a promising technology deemed to improve the efficiency of spectrum utilization. This paper considers a spectrum underlay cognitive radio network, in which the cognitive users (CUs) are allowed to use the radio spectrum concurrently with the primary users (PUs) under the interference temperature constraint. We investigate the system performance by using the proposed joint channel and power allocation scheme under two transmit strategies to achieve higher data rates and performance diversity gain respectively. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme provides a significant improvement on the bit error rate (BER) performance and spectrum efficiency of a cognitive wireless network.

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