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Cognitive radio is a promising technique to dynamic utilize the spectrum resource and improve spectrum efficiency. In this paper, we study the problem of mutual interference cancellation among secondary users (SUs) and interference control to primary users (PUs) in spectrum sharing underlay cognitive radio networks. Multiple antennas are used at the secondary base station to form multiple beams towards individual SUs, and a set of SUs are selected to adapt to the beams. For the interference control to PUs, we study power allocation among SUs to guarantee the interference to PUs below a tolerable level while maximizing SUs’ QoS. Based on these conditions, the problem of joint power allocation and beamforming with SUs selection is studied. Specifically, we emphasize on the condition of imperfect channel sensing due to hardware limitation, short sensing time and network connectivity issues, which means that only the noisy estimate of channel information for SUs can be obtained. We formulate the optimization problem to maximize the sum rate as a discrete stochastic optimization problem, then an efficient algorithm based on a discrete stochastic optimization method is proposed to solve the joint power allocation and beamforming with SUs selection problem. We verify that the proposed algorithm has fast convergence rate, low computation complexity and good tracking capability in time-varying radio environment. Finally, extensive simulation results are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed scheme.
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We thank the reviewers for their detailed reviews and constructive comments, which have helped to improve the quality of this paper. This work was jointly supported by State Key Program of National Natural Science of China (Grant No. 60832009), the National Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholar (Grant No. 61001115), Natural Science Foundation of Beijing, China (Grant No. 4102044), and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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Xie, R., Yu, F.R. & Ji, H. Joint power allocation and beamforming with users selection for cognitive radio networks via discrete stochastic optimization. Wireless Netw 18, 481–493 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-012-0413-8
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