Power-efficient resource allocation for cognitive radio in OFDM contexts

Cognitive radio is presently being researched as a means to greatly improve spectrum usage efficiency, connectivity and QoS among wireless devices and systems. In parallel, efficient and fair resource allocation strategies are being studied in order to address the requirements of future wireless technologies. In this paper, we assess a novel resource allocation scheme for OFDM systems which aims to maximize performance while limiting received interference at each user to below a defined threshold. We show that our scheme is relevant to cognitive radio, and demonstrate that through our approach, significant power savings can be achieved in wireless systems.

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