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In this paper, energy efficiency (EE) was investigated for a cognitive radio network (CRN) where massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) was combined with femto cells. A heterogeneous network was considered to maximise EE, while massive MIMO was implemented to increase spatial reuse and focus energy into smaller spatial regions. Cooperation between femto cell based relay stations (RS) and a micro cell based secondary base station (SBS) allowed for secondary user (SU) quality-of-service (QoS) requirements to be met and also for control over primary user (PU) interference. Two key issues were addressed by the proposed model, namely improved CRN EE and reduced PU interference. The formulated EE optimisation problem was non-convex and thus converted into a semi-definite problem. Simulation results show that combining massive MIMO at the micro cell level with femto cells, lead to a CRN EE improvement. The addition of femto cells also lead to a reduction in PU interference.
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Barnes, S.D., Joshi, S., Maharaj, B.T., Alfa, A.S. (2015). Massive MIMO and Femto Cells for Energy Efficient Cognitive Radio Networks. In: Weichold, M., Hamdi, M., Shakir, M., Abdallah, M., Karagiannidis, G., Ismail, M. (eds) Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks. CrownCom 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 156. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24540-9_42
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