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Power allocation for secondary users (SUs) in cognitive networks is an important issue to ensure the SUs’ quality of service. When the mutual interference between the primary users (PUs) and the SUs is taken into consideration, it is wanted to achieve the conflict-free power allocation while synchronously maximizing the capacity of the secondary network. In this paper, the optimal power allocation problem is considered in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing cognitive networks. The single SU case is primarily formulated as a constrained optimization problem. On this basis, the multiple SUs case is then studied and simulated in detail. During the analysis, the mutual interference among the PUs and the SUs is comprehensively formulated as the restrictions on the SU’s transmission power and the optimization problems are finally resolved by iterative water-filling algorithms. Consequently, the proposed power allocation scheme restrains the interference to the primary network, as well as maximizing the capacity of the secondary network. Specifying the multiple-SUs case, simulation results are exhibited in a simplified scenario to confirm the efficiency of the proposed water-filling algorithm, and the influence of the mutual interference on the power allocation and the system capacity is further illustrated.
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However, this does not mean that our model is not suitable if both of two kinds of channel gains are taken into account; the model can be expanded into that case easily.
In [14], Γ s is defined as Γ s = − ln(5·BER s,target)/1.5 at low BER level, where coding gain is not considered.
n L is called the “cut-off” subcarrier if the sorted subcarriers {1,...,n L } are optimally allocated with the power of \(E_n^{\rm max}\), while the sorted subcarriers {n L + 1,...,N L } are allocated with the power of \(E_0-{\rm CGNR}_n^{-1}\).
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This research was supported by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE), Korea, under the Information Technology Research Center (ITRC) support program supervised by the Institute of Information Technology Assessment (IITA) (IITA-2008-C1090-0801-0019).
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Appendix
We would like to append a novel proof of water-filling theorem in this part, which is more compact and straightforward.
where n ∈ {1...N}. The constraint conditions obviously satisfy Slater’s conditions, so the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker (KKT) conditions are sufficient and necessary for the optimal vector [20]. Thus, we obtain
where
If λ n > 0, we achieve E n = 0 using Eq. 21 and CGNR n − λ n + ϖ + μ n = 0 using Eq. 20. Since the power allocation is zero in this case, we will focus on the power allocation in the case of λ n = 0.
If λ n = 0, using Eq. 21, we obtain
and using Eq. 20, we achieve
If λ n = 0 and μ n > 0, using Eq. 23, we attain
and using Eq. 28, we obtain
If λ n = 0 and μ n = 0, using Eq. 23, we attain
and using Eq. 28, we obtain
Colligating the results of Eqs. 27–32, we achieve Fig. 10, where λ n = 0. From the figure, we obtain that the power allocation satisfies
and allocated power is zero in other cases.
If we set \(E_0=\varpi^{-1}\), E 0 is the water level for this water-filling case.
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Zhao, C., Zou, M. & Kwak, K. Mutual interference considered power allocation in OFDM-based cognitive networks: the multiple SUs case. Ann. Telecommun. 65, 341–351 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-009-0140-z
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