Steady-state Markov chain analysis for heterogeneous cognitive radio networks

  • Authors:
  • Amir Sepasi Zahmati;Xavier Fernando;Ali Grami

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada;Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Sarnoff'10 Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE conference on Sarnoff
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Cognitive radio technology has been widely researched to improve the spectrum usage efficiency. Modeling of the spectrum occupancy in a cognitive framework including licensed and unlicensed users with various traffic conditions, is a prior requirement to do the system analysis. In this paper, we develop a continuous-time Markov chain model to describe the radio spectrum usage, and derive the transition rate matrix for this model. In addition, we perform steady-state analysis to analytically derive the probability state vector. The proposed model and derived expressions are compared to the existing models, and examined through numerical analysis.