Optimal Spectrum Sensing in Energy Harvesting Cognitive Radio Systems

In this paper,we consider a cognitive radio system with energy harvesting,in which the secondary user operates in a saving-sensing-transmitting(SST) fashion.We investigate the tradeoff between energy harvesting,channel sensing and data transmission and focus on the optimal SST structure to maximize the SU's expected achievable throughput.We consider imperfect knowledge of energy harvesting rate,which cannot be exactly known and only its statistical information is available.By formulating the problem of expected achievable throughput optimization as a mixed-integer non-linear programming one,we derive the optimal saveratio and number of sensed channels with indepth analysis.Simulation results show that the optimal SST structure outperforms random one and performance gain can be enhanced by increasing the SU's energy harvesting rate.

Ultra Dense Satellite-Enabled 6G Networks:Resource Optimization and Interference Management

With the evolution of the sixth generation(6G)mobile communication technology,ample attention has gone to the integrated terrestrial-satellite networks.This paper notes that four typical application scenarios of integrated terrestrial-satellite networks are integrated into ultra dense satellite-enabled 6G networks architecture.Then the subchannel and power allocation schemes for the downlink of the ultra dense satellite-enabled 6G heterogeneous networks are introduced.Satellite mobile edge computing(SMEC)with edge caching in three-layer heterogeneous networks serves to reduce the link traffic of networks.Furthermore,a scheme for interference management is presented,involving quality-of-service(QoS)and co-tier/cross-tier interference constraints.The simulation results show that the proposed schemes can significantly increase the total capacity of ultra dense satellite-enabled 6G heterogeneous networks.

Predictive Spectrum Sensing Strategy Based on Reinforcement Learning

In this paper,we consider a cognitive radio(CR) system with a single secondary user(SU) and multiple licensed channels.The SU requests a fixed number of licensed channels and must sense the licensed channels one by one before transmission.By leveraging prediction based on correlation between the licensed channels,we propose a novel spectrum sensing strategy,to decide which channel is the best choice to sense in order to reduce the sensing time overhead and further improve the SU's achievable throughput.Since the correlation coefficients between the licensed channels cannot be exactly known in advance,the spectrum sensing strategy is designed based on the model-free reinforcement learning(RL).The experimental results show that the proposed spectrum sensing strategy based on reinforcement learning converges and outperforms random sensing strategy in terms of long-term statistics.