Joint spectrum allocation and energy harvesting optimization in green powered heterogeneous cognitive radio networks

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2018

Abstract

We aim at maximizing the sum rate of secondary users (SUs) in OFDM-based Heterogeneous Cognitive Radio (CR) Networks using RF energy harvesting. Assuming SUs operate in a time switching fashion, each time slot is partitioned into three non-overlapping parts devoted for energy harvesting, spectrum sensing and data transmission. The general problem of joint resource allocation and structure optimization is formulated as a Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming task which is NP-hard and intractable. Thus, we propose to tackle it by decomposing it into two subproblems. We first propose a sub-channel allocation scheme to approximately satisfy SUs’ rate requirements and remove the integer constraints. For the second step, we prove that the general optimization problem is reduced to a convex optimization task. Considering the trade-off among fractions of each time slot, we focus on optimizing the time slot structures of SUs that maximize the total throughput while guaranteeing the rate requirements of both real-time and non-real-time SUs. Since the reduced optimization problem does not have a simple closed-form solution, we thus propose a near optimal closed-form solution by utilizing Lambert-W function. We also exploit iterative gradient method based on Lagrangian dual decomposition to achieve near optimal solutions. Simulation results are presented to validate the optimality of the proposed schemes.

Identifier

85048458070 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Computer Communications

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2018.05.011

ISSN

01403664

First Page

36

Last Page

49

Volume

127

Grant

CNS-1320468

Fund Ref

National Science Foundation

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