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Spectrum leasing based on Nash Bargaining Solution in cognitive radio networks

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Cognitive radio is becoming an emerging technology that has the potential of dealing with the stringent requirement and scarcity of the radio spectrum resource. In this paper, we focus on the dynamic spectrum access of cognitive radio networks, in which the primary user (PU) and secondary users (SUs) coexist. In property-rights model, the PU has property of the bandwidth and may decide to lease it to secondary network for a fraction of time in exchange for appropriate remuneration. We propose a cooperative communication-aware spectrum leasing framework, in which, PU selects SUs as cooperative relays to help transmit information, while the selected SUs have the right to decide their payment made for PU in order to obtain a proportional access time to the spectrum. Then, the spectrum leasing scheme is cast into a Nash Bargaining Problem, and the Nash Bargaining Solution (NBS) can be used to fairly and efficiently address the resource allocation between PU and secondary network, enhancing both the utility of PU and secondary network. Numerical results show that spectrum leasing based on NBS is an effective method to improve performance for cognitive radio networks.

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This work was supported by the National Basic Research Programme of China (973 Programme) (no. 2010CB731800), Key Project of National Nature Science Foundation of China (no. 60934003), National Nature Science Foundation of China (no. 61104033; no. 61172095; no. 61203104) and Nature Science Foundation of Hebei Province (no. F2011203226; no. F2012203109; no. F2012203126).

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  2. Institute of Electrical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Industrial Computer Control Engineering of Hebei Province, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China

    Xinping Guan, Xiaocheng Wang, Kai Ma, Zhixin Liu & Qiaoni Han

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Guan, X., Wang, X., Ma, K. et al. Spectrum leasing based on Nash Bargaining Solution in cognitive radio networks. Telecommun Syst 57, 313–325 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-013-9860-5

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