IEICE Transactions on Communications
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Sensing-Based Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing for Cognitive Radio Downlink MIMO Systems
Liang LILing QIUGuo WEI
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2012 Volume E95.B Issue 10 Pages 3358-3361

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In this letter we propose a practical sensing-based opportunistic spectrum sharing scheme for cognitive radio (CR) downlink MIMO systems. Multi-antennas are exploited at the secondary transmitter to opportunistically access the primary spectrum and effectively achieve a balance between secondary throughput maximization and mitigation of interference probably caused to primary radio link. We first introduce a brief secondary frame structure, in which a sensing phase is exploited to estimate the effective interference channel. According to the sensing result and taking the interference caused by the primary link into account, we propose an enhanced signal-to-leakage-and-noise ratio (SLNR)-based precoding scheme for the secondary transmitter. Compared to conventional schemes where perfect knowledge of the channels over which the CR transmitter interferes with the primary receiver (PR) is assumed, our proposed scheme shows its superiority and simulation results validate this.

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