On the primary exclusive region of cognitive networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Approximating a Sum of Random Variables with a Lognormal
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
On the statistics of cognitive radio capacity in shadowing and fast fading environments
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Level crossing rates of interference in cognitive radio networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
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In this paper we describe a model for calculating the aggregate interference encountered by primary receivers in the presence of randomly placed cognitive radios (CRs). We show that incorporating the impact of distance attenuation and lognormal fading on each constituent interferer in the aggregate, leads to a composite interference that cannot be satisfactorily modeled by a lognormal. Using the interference statistics we determine a number of key parameters needed for the deployment of CRs. Examples of these are the exclusion zone radius, needed to protect the primary receiver under different types of fading environments and acceptable interference levels, and the numbers of CRs that can be deployed. We further show that if the CRs have apriori knowledge of the radio environment map (REM), then a much larger number of CRs can be deployed especially in a high density environment. Given REM information, we also look at the CR numbers achieved by two different types of techniques to process the scheduling information.