Coexistence of Power-Controlled Cellular Networks With Rotating Radar

In this paper, we study spectral coexistence between rotating radar and power-controlled cellular networks in radar bands. For two systems to spectrally coexist, they must be able to operate effectively without causing harmful electromagnetic interference to each other. Very short radar-cellular system separation distances are required during 83.3% of time due to the narrow main beam width of the rotational radar antenna. We propose a spatio-temporal analytical approach with adaptive base station (BS) power control for adjacent spectrum sharing between the two systems. We develop a new model for the aggregate interference from power-controlled cellular BSs using log-normal approximation. The cellular system is allowed to transmit at high power when the radar antenna's main beam is pointing elsewhere from it. On the other hand, the cellular system reduces its transmit power only for a short period when the radar directional antenna main beam is pointing toward it. We use the degradation of the radar signal-to-interference plus noise ratio and cellular outage probability as our performance metrics. Numerical results show that power control of cellular BS highly reduces separation distance between the BS and radar, while yielding marginal degradation of outage performance. In addition, the mathematical results given by the log-normal approximation closely follow our simulated results. Detail system level assessments and investigations are presented to comprehensively understand secondary access to this band opportunistically.

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