Analysis and outage performance evaluation of a fair scheduling for independent non‐identically distributed users in a cognitive radio using OSTBC with equally correlated transmit antennas

Abstract

In this study, a fair user-scheduling method is considered for an underlay cognitive radio system, in which the secondary users (SUs) are sharing the licenced frequency spectrum of a single primary user (PU), where the PU and SUs utilise Alamouti orthogonal space-time block coding (OSTBC). The impacts of some important practical issues are investigated in the system. First, it is assumed that the signal-to-noise-ratios of the SUs are independent non-identically distributed. Second, the transmit antennas for OSTBC corresponding to the SUs are assumed to be equally correlated. Third, the interference from the PU to SUs as well as the interferences from SUs to the PU are taken into consideration. To investigate the outage performance of the SUs, a closed-form expression for the cumulative distribution function of the SUs signal-to-interference-noise-ratio is obtained and then used to derive an expression for evaluating the secondary system outage performance. The numerically evaluated results, validated by computer simulations, provide insights about system outage performance under various practical situations on the impacts of the spatial antennas correlation and the PU interference on to SUs.