Breaking Spectrum Gridlock With Cognitive Radios: An Information Theoretic Perspective
Naroa Zurutuza - EE360 Winter 2014
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Introduction
Cognitive Radio: Wireless communication system that intelligently utilizes any available side information about the activity, channel conditions, codebooks, messages or other nodes with which it shares spectrum.
Motivation: spectrum scarcity
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Cognitive Radio Paradigms
UnderlayCognitive users transmit simultaneously with noncognitive users as long as interference is below threshold. Channel Side Information
OverlayCognitive users transmit simultaneously with noncongnitive users by assigning part of their transmit power to assist noncognitive users. Codebook Side Information
InterwaveIdentify available spectrum portions for a specific temporary location and time and use these spectrum holes for cognitive unlicensed transmissions. Activity Side Information
Primary UserOverlay CRUnderlay CR
Interference Threshold
Freq.
PSD
Interweave CR
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Degrees of Freedom
• Not always possible to obtain capacity region of wireless network: asymptotic characterization using Degrees of Freedom
• Number of accessible interference-free dimensions
• At high SNR principal determinant of network capacity
CΣ(SNR) = d log (SNR) + o (log (SNR))
≈ d log (SNR)
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Interference Channel I
Goal: to determine capacity region of interference channels
Interference channel Rate-splitting
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Underlay I
• Channel Side Information required
• Simultaneous cognitive and noncognitive communication below interference threshold --> Interference temperature
• Capacity: characterized by translating receive power constraint into transmit power constraint at cognitive transmitter
AWGN channelAverage interference constraint -->
corresponding transmit power constraint. Gaussian codebooks optimal
Gaussian MAC channel
Constraint in sum of transmit powersCapacity region: union of different MAC
with constant sum of powers
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Underlay II
Techniques to fulfill the interference constraint:
• Multiple antennas: guide cognitive signals away from noncognitive users
• Spread spectrum / UWB
Degrees of freedom:
• Case of two MIMO users: (M1, N1) and (M2, N2) --> min(M1+M2, N1+N2, max(M1,N2), max(N1,M2))
• More than 2 users: at least 1/2 of total degrees of freedom (assuming global channel knowledge)
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Overlay I
• Codebook Side Information required: problematic at the start of a communication
• Cognitive user applies encoding schemes to improve cognitive and noncognitive data rates
• Simplest overlay CR network:
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Overlay II
Overlay encoding techniques:
• Rate-splitting: partial interference cancelation at decoders
• GP binning: precode against intereference
• Cooperation: relay noncognitive message to cognitive decoders
• Superposition coding: combination of the above techniques
Capacity-achieving regimes:
• Strong interference
• Gaussian channel with weak interefernce
• Common information
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Overlay III
Degrees of Freedom:
• Two-user channel: 1 (interference channel with no cooperation) or 2 (2x2 MIMO with full cooperation in Tx and Rx)
• MIMO case (M1, N1) (M2, N2): min{M1 + M2, N1 + N2,(1 − 1T2)((1 − 1R2)max(M1,N2) + 1R2(M1 + N2)) + 1T2(M1 + M2),(1 −1T1 )((1−1R1 ) max(M2 , N1 )+1R1 (M2 +N1 ))+1T 1 (M1 +M2 )}
Cooperation:
• Relay channel
• Oblivious cognitive users
• Aware cognitive users, cooperative noncognitive users
• Full cooperation and cognition
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Interwave I
Activity Side Information required: noncognitive user detection, sensing
• Signal degradations, fading, shadowing, dynamic nature of CR etc.
• Missed detection and False alarms --> ROC
• SNR Wall
Single Cognitive User link: two-switch model
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Interwave II
Opportunistic Channel Selection:
• Narrow-band techniques: Frequency hopping, Frequency tracking
• Wide-band techniques: Frequency coding
Degrees of freedom:
• Perfect sensing: 1 --> CΣ(SNR) ≈ d log (SNR)
• Imperfect sensing: depend on duty cycle and false alarm/missed detection probabilities
Multiple User Case: Access protocols
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Conclusions
• Cognitive Radio: tremendous promise
• Different paradigms, each require particular Side Information
• Difficult to provide exact capacity results --> degrees of freedom as metric of sum capacity of cognitive networks
• Cooperation to improve performance
• Research on combination of different paradigms
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