1890 IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS, VOL. 22, NO. 9, SEPTEMBER 2018
Capacity Maximization in Full-Duplex Cognitive Radio Systems With
Non-Slotted Primary User State Change
Wenjun Xu , Senior Member, IEEE, Jiji Tang, Zhen Wang, and Li Guo, Member, IEEE
Abstract—This letter considers the capacity maximization
problem in full-duplex cognitive radio systems, where the state of
primary user (PU) is non-slotted and may change at any time in
one slot. First, the sensing probabilities are derived in the case
of non-slotted PU state. Then, slot duration, transmit power,
and two detection thresholds, respectively, corresponding to two
cases that secondary user (SU) is silent or active, are jointly
optimized to maximize SU’s capacity. Numerical results show
that the proposed algorithm can achieve the near-optimal solution
with a low computational complexity and a considerably higher
capacity, compared with the ideal assumption of slotted PU state,
can be obtained by considering the non-slotted state change.
Index Terms—Cognitive radio, full-duplex, non-slotted, capac-
ity optimization, spectrum sensing.
I. INTRODUCTION
W
ITH the rapid development of wireless communica-
tion networks, the available spectrum resources have
become increasingly scarce. Cognitive radio (CR) technology
has emerged to alleviate the shortage problem of spectrum
resources, usually by allowing secondary user (SU) to oppor-
tunistically access the available bands which are not occupied
by PU [1]. Most of the existing work concerning CR networks
is based on half-duplex (HD) mode, which adopts “listen
before talk” (LBT) protocol. However, this mode may lead
to discontinues transmission and longer collision duration
since CR systems can not detect the collision immediately
if a collision occurs during data transmission [2]. Recently,
the full-duplex (FD) communication mode is proposed, which
adopts “listen and talk” (LAT) protocol and allows SU to sense
radio spectrum while transmitting data. Owing to the great
progress of self-interference cancelation (SIC) technologies,
the residual self-interference (RSI) can now be suppressed to a
much lower level so that the FD transmission mode is feasible
in practical CR systems [3], e.g., [2] validates FD technology
can solve the discontinuous transmission problems effectively
and [3] states FD technology can increase throughput and
reduce collisions as opposed to HD technology.
Manuscript received May 25, 2018; accepted July 3, 2018. Date of pub-
lication July 11, 2018; date of current version September 8, 2018. This
work is supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of
China (61471059, 61790553), in part by the Fundamental Research Funds
for the Central Universities (2014ZD03-01), and in part by the Special
Youth Science Foundation of Jiangxi (20133ACB21007). The associate editor
coordinating the review of this letter and approving it for publication was
N. Tran. (Corresponding author: Wenjun Xu.)
W. Xu, J. Tang, and L. Guo are with the Key Laboratory of Universal
Wireless Communications, Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Posts
and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China (e-mail: wjxu@bupt.edu.cn).
Z. Wang is with the School of Information Engineering, Nanchang Univer-
sity, Nanchang 330031, China.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/LCOMM.2018.2854879
The existing work mainly assumes that the activity of PU is
slotted, e.g., the state of PU maintains unchanged during one
slot, and varies only from one slot to another slot [2], [4].
However, in practice, the spectrum occupation of PU may
arrive or depart at an arbitrary time, and this assumption
inevitably causes the capacity performance degradation, espe-
cially in CR systems with highly dynamic spectrum occupation
by PU or long sensing duration of SU [5], since the actual
PU state is possibly not consistent with the sensed PU state
under such an assumption. Lu et al. [6] and MacDonald and
Popescu [7], consider the effect of non-slotted PU’s state
on the average capacity in HD CR systems. It makes more
sense to take the non-slotted PU state into account in FD CR
systems, since in such systems the overall slot is used for
spectrum sensing [8], which means that the state of PU
may change during the sensing duration in a much higher
probability.
In this letter, the capacity of FD CR systems with the non-
slotted PU state change is analyzed by establishing a novel
four-state Markov model based on different combination of
PU and SU states, and then is maximized by proposing a near-
optimal algorithm based on gradient descent. To the best of
our knowledge, there is little work considering the effect of
non-slotted PU activity on FD CR systems. Cheng et al. [8]
and He et al. [9] analyze the sensing performance in FD CR
systems under non-slotted PU state. However, the change of
PU state is not considered, i.e., “idle” and “busy” states of
PU are analyzed individually. Moreover, the authors do not
consider the effect of action taken in the previous slot by the
SU on the current slot. However, whether the self-interference
is present or not should depend on the sensing result in the
previous slot.
II. S
YSTEM MODEL
An FD CR system including one PU pair and one SU pair is
considered, where the spectrum is licensed to the PU pair, and
the SU pair is allowed to access the spectrum only when there
is a spectrum hole based on the overlay paradigm in an FD
manner, i.e., the SU antennas perform spectrum sensing and
data transmission simultaneously [2]. The state of PU spectrum
occupation is modeled as a non-slotted and dynamic binary
process, i.e., the state of PU switches between ON and OFF
at arbitrary time point and holds in a random duration. It is
assumed that the durations of PU pair’s occupancy and absence
are both exponentially distributed with means λ and τ,where
λ and τ denote the average number of samples corresponding
to PU pair’s occupancy and absence, respectively, and can be
practically set based on the PU activity measurements and
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