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Wireless Pers Commun DOI 10.1007/s11277-013-1301-y Impact of Imperfect Channel Information on the Performance of Underlay Cognitive DF Multi-hop Systems Khuong Ho-Van © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 Abstract This paper presents an analysis framework for performance evaluation of underlay cognitive decode-and-forward (DF) multi-hop systems over Rayleigh fading channel under imperfect channel information Specifically, we derive the exact closed-form bit error rate (BER) and interference probability (i.e., the probability that the interference power constraint is invalid) expressions The derived expressions are well supported by simulations and serve as useful tools for fast system performance evaluation under different aspects To reduce the interference probability, we consider the back-off power control mechanism Various results demonstrate the effect of channel information imperfection on the system performance and the trade-off between the interference probability and BER Also, the performance of underlay cognitive DF multi-hop systems depends both network topology and the number of hops Keywords Imperfect channel information · Decode-and-forward · Cognitive radio · Underlay · Multi-hop communication · Fading channel Introduction The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) pointed out in a survey of spectrum utilization that the currently licensed spectrum is significantly under-utilized [1] On the other hand, the spectrum resources for many emerging wireless applications such as video calling, online high-definition video streaming, high-speed Internet access through mobile devices, etc are very scarce To improve the spectrum utilization, the cognitive radio technology is proposed [2] In cognitive radio, secondary users-SUs (or unlicensed users) are generally allowed to use the licensed band primarily allotted to primary users-PUs (or licensed users) unless their operation does not interfere with the normal communication of PUs in three modes: underlay, overlay, and interweave [3] In the underlay mode, SUs are allowed to use K Ho-Van (B) Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam e-mail: khuong.hovan@yahoo.ca 123 K Ho-Van the spectrum when the interference caused by SUs on PUs is within the range tolerated by PUs This mode is more preferable than the others for its low implementation complexity [4] Due to the interference power constraint imposed on SUs operating in the underlay mode, their transmit power is limited and as such, their transmission range is significantly reduced To overcome this shortage, SUs can apply relaying techniques, which take advantage of shorter range communication for lower path loss Among various relaying techniques, decode-and-forward (DF) and amplify-and-forward (AF) have been extensively investigated [5] In DF, each relay decodes information from the source, re-encodes it, and then forwards it to the destination In AF, each relay simply amplifies the received signal and forwards it to the destination Due to its capability of regenerating noise-free relayed signals, DF is selected in this paper This paper investigates underlay cognitive DF multi-hop networks with arbitrary number of hops Most performance analyzing works dedicated to these networks in terms of outage probability (e.g., [3,6–11]) and BER (e.g., [12–14]1 ) assume perfect channel estimation and two-hop communication It is well-known that channel state information (CSI) is essential for coherent detection Nevertheless, existing channel estimators are unable to provide the perfect CSI As such, the impact of imperfect CSI on the system performance should be considered In [15], interference probability and BER analysis for cognitive single-hop networks is presented in the assumption of the imperfect CSI only for SU-PU links In [16], exact interference probability and outage probability expressions for cognitive AF dual-hop networks To the best of our knowledge, the exact interference probability and BER analysis for cognitive DF N -hop networks with N being the arbitrary integer and imperfect CSI on all channels is still open This paper fills in this gap with the proposal of new closed-form exact interference probability and BER expressions All derived expressions are validated by simulations and are useful in evaluating the system performance without time-consuming simulations The rest of this paper is organized as follows The next section presents the system model and the CSI imperfection model The performance analysis in terms of interference probability and BER is discussed in Sect Simulated and analytical results are presented in Sect for derivation validity and performance evaluation Finally, the paper is concluded in Sect System Model The underlay cognitive DF multi-hop network model under consideration is depicted in Fig 1, where N − SRs numbered from to N − assist the transmission of SS to SD N , and SS and SRs use the same spectrum as a primary user P The direct communication between SS and SD is bypassed, which may be reasonable in scenarios where SS and SD are too far apart or their communication link is blocked due to severe shadowing and fading We assume that the channel between any pair of transmitter and receiver experiences independent block frequency-flat Rayleigh fading (i.e., frequency-flat fading is invariant during one phase but independently changed from one to another) Therefore, the channel coefficient between the transmitter t ∈ {0, 1, , N − 1} and the receiver r ∈ {1, 2, , N , P} is h tr ∼ CN 0, ηtr = dtr−α ,2 where dtr is the distance between the two terminals and α is the path-loss exponent [17] Khuong and Bao [14] only derives the approximate closed-form BER expression h ∼ CN (m, v) denotes a m-mean circular symmetric complex Gaussian random variable with variance v 123 Impact of Imperfect Channel Information Fig System model P h1P h0 P Re(1) h01 Re(2) h12 h2 P h (N-1)P N-1 Re(N) h(N-1)N N A N -hop communication time interval consists of N phases In the first phase, SS transmits a modulated symbol x0 with the symbol energy, B0 (i.e., E{|x0 |2 } = B0 where E{·} denotes the expectation) SR demodulates the received signal from SS and re-modulates the demodulated symbol as x1 with the symbol energy, B1 , before forwarding to SR in the second phase The process continues until the signal reaches SD N The received signal through the hop r can be expressed as ytr = h tr xt + n tr , (1) where ytr denotes a signal received at the node r from the node t = r −1 and n tr ∼ CN (0, N0 ) is additive white Gaussian noise at the node r In the underlay cognitive relay systems [10,18], the SU t’s transmit power is limited such that the interference imposed on PU is under control Without CSI errors, this interference constraint can be addressed as Bt ≤ IT /|h t P |2 where IT is the maximum interference level that PU still operates reliably For the maximum transmission range, Bt = IT /|h t P |2 is set Following [19–22], we choose the CSI imperfection model as h tr = h tr + εtr , (2) where h tr is the estimate of the t − r channel and εtr is the CSI error We assume that h tr and h tr are jointly ergodic and stationary Gaussian processes Therefore, εtr ∼ CN (0, σtr ) and h tr ∼ CN 0, λ1tr = ηtr − σtr σtr represents the quality of the channel estimator For example [19], for the linear-minimum-mean-square-error (LMMSE) = 1/ L p γ¯tr,training + where L p is the number estimator, σtr = E |h tr |2 − E h tr of pilot symbols, γ¯tr,training = E γtr,training = Bt,training ηtr /N0 is the average SNR of pilot symbols for the t − r channel, and Bt,training is the pilot power Performance Analysis Due to CSI errors, the transmit power of the node t is modifed as Bt = IT /|h t P |2 Then, there are two possibilities: |h t P |2 ≤ |h t P |2 and |h t P |2 > |h t P |2 Setting the transmit power as Bt = IT /|h t P |2 meets the interference power constraint for |h t P |2 ≤ |h t P |2 (since this case results in the interference power as Bt |h t P |2 = IT |h t P |2 /|h t P |2 ≤ IT ) but not for |h t P |2 > |h t P |2 (since this case results in the interference power as Bt |h t P |2 =IT |h t P |2 /|h t P |2 >IT ) Since E ht P ≤ E |h t P |2 where the equality holds for no CSI errors, on the 123 K Ho-Van average such transmit power setting may not meet the interference power constraint (i.e., the interference at P is greater than IT ) Therefore, the primary system performance may be severely degraded if the channel estimator is not efficient Consequently, in order to propose solutions to interference reduction on primary systems, statistics of interference at the PU receiver should be analyzed The most important statistics is the probability that the interference exceeds IT , namely the interference probability PI as used in [16] It is noted that PI is derived for underlay cognitive AF dual-hop networks [16] and for underlay cognitive single-hop networks [15] with the CSI imperfection model slightly different from mine.3 Obviously, by backing-off the transmit power of SUs, PI can be reduced This mechanism is applied in [15,16] at the expense of performance degradation of SUs due to lower transmit power Specifically, the transmit power of the SU t is just a fraction of Bt Therefore, the transmit power of the SU t taking into account both the imperfect CSI and the back-off power control (BPC) is B˜ t = ρ Bt , where ≤ ρ ≤ is the back-off power control coefficient 3.1 Interference Probability There are N secondary transmitters t ∈ {0, 1, , N − 1} in the considered multi-hop networks and thus, an interference event occurs if and only if the current transmitter n causes the interference to exceed IT while the previous ones m ∈ {0, 1, , n −1} not According to the total probability law the interference probability is expressed as N −1 PI = n−1 (1 − Pm ), Pn n=0 (3) m=0 where Pt = Pr B˜ t |h t P |2 > IT = Pr ρ|h t P |2 > hˆ t P with t ∈ {n, m} is the probability that the SU t causes the interference to exceed IT Let σt P θ = σt P τ = = ρηt P ηt P − σ t P ρηt P 1− ηt P − σ t P 1+ τ2 − 16ρ σt2P (4) (5) (6) Then Pt = θ 1− , (7) The proof of (7) is given in the “Appendix” Plugging (7) in (3) results in the closed-form expression of PI The CSI imperfection model in [15] and [16] is hˆ = ρ h + tr tr tr coefficient between hˆ tr and h tr 123 ε where ρ is the correlation − ρtr tr tr Impact of Imperfect Channel Information 3.2 BER Derivation Using the CSI imperfection model in (2), we rewrite (1) as hˆ tr xt ytr = + εtr xt + n tr desired signal (8) effective noise According to (8), the effective SNR of the t − r channel taking CSI errors and the BPC into account is expressed as B˜ t h tr γtr = h tr E |xt |2 E |εtr xt + n tr |2 = B˜ t σtr + N0 h tr = 2 σtr + h t P /μ = z tr , dtr (9) where z tr = h tr , dtr = σtr + h t P /μ, and μ = ρ IT /N0 The average BER at the node r for square M-QAM with M = 2q (q even) and rectangular M-QAM with M = 2q (q odd) modulation schemes,4 respectively, as Re (r ) = ∞ {ψ (I,√u, M; γ ) + ψ ∞ ψ M, g, M; γ (J, u, M; γ )} f γtr (γ ) dγ , k odd f γtr (γ ) dγ , k even , (10) where g = 3/(M − 1), u = 6/(I + J − 2), I = 2(q−1)/2 , J = 2(q+1)/2 , and ψ (s, v, M; γ ) = slog2 M Δ log2 s 1−2−k s−1 k=1 i=0 (−1) i2k−1 s Q 2k−1 − (2i + 1)2 vγ i2k−1 s + −1 (11) The expression in (11) is cited from [23] Next, we derive f γtr (γ ) to have explicit expression for (10) Since h tr ∼ CN 0, λ1tr and h t P ∼ CN 0, λ1t P , the pdf’s of z tr and dtr are f z tr (x) = λtr e−λtr x and f dtr (x) = λt P μe−λt P μ(x−σtr ) , respectively As a result, the pdf of γtr = z tr /dtr in (9) is given as [24, eq (6–60)] ∞ f γtr (x) = y f z tr (yx) f dtr (y) dy = κtr μeλt P μσtr (x + κtr μ)2 , (12) where κtr = λt P /λtr Inserting (12) into (10) results in Re (r ) = θ (I, u, Wtr ) + θ (J, u, Wtr ) , √ 2θ M, g, Wtr , k odd (13) k even where Wtr = {M, κtr , μ, λt P , σtr } is a set of parameters The average BER of other modulation schemes such as M-PSK can be derived in the same approach 123 K Ho-Van In (13), we define θ (s, v, Wtr ) = slog2 M Δ log2 s 1−2−k s−1 k=1 i=0 i2k−1 s (−1) κtr μeλt P μσtr ζ (2i + 1)2 v, κt P μ 2k−1 − i2k−1 s + −1 (14) Here we define ∞ √ Q ζ (β, a) = βx (x + a)2 d x (15) Applying the integration by parts, we obtain the closed-form of ζ (β, a) as ζ (β, a) = √ β − √ 2a 2π ∞ √ βa βe = − √ 2a 2π = where er f (x) = √2 π x − 2a βx e− √ dx (x + a) x ∞ a βa βπ e 2a βy e− dy √ y y−a − er f βa , (16) e−t dt is the error function [27] and the closed-form expression of the integral in the second equality is borrowed from [27, eq (3.363.2)] Given the set of the average BERs of all hops {Re (1), , Re (N )}, the exact closed-form average BER of the underlay cognitive DF multi-hop networks is expressed as [25] ⎤ ⎡ N Re = n=1 ⎣ Re (n) N (1 − 2Re ( j))⎦ (17) j=n+1 Illustrative Results For illustration purpose, we randomly select user coordinates as shown in Fig 2: P at (0.7, 0.5), SS at (0, 0), SR at (0.6, 0.2), SR at (0.8, 0.3), SD at (1, 0) SS 0, SD 3, and P are always fixed and thus, for 2-hop case only SR is considered Also, the number on the line is the distance between two corresponding terminals The network topology in Fig is applied to all following results We consider the path-loss exponent of α = and the CSI error variance of σtr = 1/ L p Bt,training ηtr /N0 + [19] The value of Bt,training is selected such that the average received power at P does not exceed IT (i.e., Bt,training ηtr ≤ IT ).5 As a result, for illustration purpose we select Bt,training = IT /ηt P The study of channel estimators is outside the scope of this paper Therefore, the selection of B t,training in this paper is just an example to demonstrate the effect of CSI imperfection on BER of underlay cognitive relay systems 123 Impact of Imperfect Channel Information Fig Network topology 10 Simulation: 2−hop Analysis: 2−hop Simulation: 3−hop Analysis: 3−hop −1 PI 10 Lp=1 −2 10 Lp=3 −3 10 −4 10 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 ρ Fig Interference probability versus back-off power control coefficient (I T /N0 = 20 dB) Figure plots the interference probability versus the back-off power control coefficient for IT /N0 = 20 dB, N = {2, 3}, and L p = {1, 3} Both simulation and analysis are in perfect agreement, validating the accuracy of (3) Additionally as expected in the analysis of Sect 3.1, PI decreases with the decrease of ρ Nevertheless, this reduction of PI degrades the BER performance of secondary networks as seen in the following results Moreover, these results are reasonable in the sense that PI is proportional to the number of hops This is because the higher number of hops, the more transmitters can cause interference Finally, the smaller the CSI error (i.e., the larger the L p ), the smaller the PI Figures and compares simulated and numerical results for two typical modulation levels (2-QAM for odd q and 4-QAM for even q), N = {2, 3}, different degrees of CSI availability (perfect CSI and imperfect CSI with L p = 1), with/without BPC For the case of perfect CSI, no BPC is assumed (i.e., ρ = 1) It is seen that analytical results are well matched with simulated ones Additionally, the BER performance is improved with respect to the increase in IT This is obvious since IT imposes a constraint on the transmit power and 123 K Ho-Van hops −1 10 BER hops Perfect CSI (Analysis) Perfect CSI (Simulation) Imperfect CSI: ρ=1 (Analysis) Imperfect CSI: ρ=1 (Simulation) Imperfect CSI: ρ=0.7 (Analysis) Imperfect CSI: ρ=0.7 (Simulation) −2 10 10 15 20 I /N (dB) T Fig BER versus I T /N0 (2-QAM) hops hops −1 BER 10 Perfect CSI (Analysis) Perfect CSI (Simulation) Imperfect CSI: ρ=1 (Analysis) Imperfect CSI: ρ=1 (Simulation) Imperfect CSI: ρ=0.7 (Analysis) Imperfect CSI: ρ=0.7 (Simulation) −2 10 10 15 20 I /N (dB) T Fig BER versus I T /N0 (4-QAM) the higher IT , the higher the transmit power, eventually enhancing communication reliability Moreover, the BER performance is deteriorated with the decrease of ρ and the lack of CSI It is recalled that PI is proportional to ρ Therefore, the trade-off between BER and PI should be noted in system design Figure investigates the impact of the quality of the channel estimator on BER without the BPC (i.e., ρ = 1) The quality of the channel estimator can be enhanced by increasing the number of pilot symbols L p at the cost of the bandwidth loss due to increased overhead The results are reasonable since the BER performance is improved with the increased L p Furthermore, for the selected channel estimator model, the performance is saturated at L p = 123 Impact of Imperfect Channel Information BER 2−QAM & hops 4−QAM & hops 2−QAM & hops 4−QAM & hops −1 10 10 Lp Fig BER versus L p (I T /N0 = 10, ρ = dB) Given the specific network topology in Fig 2, results in Figs 4, 5, and illustrate that 3-hop communication is worst than 2-hop communication for any set {ρ, L p , α, IT , M} This means that in underlay cognitive DF multi-hop networks the advantage of the 3-hop communication over 2-hop communication in terms of the path loss reduction [e.g., the distance from the last relay to the destination in the 3-hop case (i.e., SR 2) is smaller than that in the 2-hop case (i.e., SR 1)] can not sometimes turn into the performance improvement This is because the last relay in the 3-hop case is closer to the primary user than in the 2-hop case, causing higher interference Thus, the last relay in the 3-hop case should utilize lower transmit power than in the 2-hop case for reducing the interference level to the primary user, leading to higher performance degradation These results recommend that the relay selection in underlay cognitive DF multi-hop networks is crucial in enhancing the network performance A good relay not only provides reliable communication to the destination but also causes less interference to the primary user The problem of the relay selection is outside the scope of this paper Conclusion This paper investigates the interference probability and the BER of underlay cognitive DF multi-hop systems over Rayleigh fading channel in consideration of imperfect CSI We quickly obtain results owing to the derived expressions of PI and BER Simulated results are well matched with numerical ones Various results demonstrate that the imperfect CSI significantly affects the BER performance of underlay cognitive DF multi-hop networks and the interference power constraint imposes the trade-off between PI and BER Additionally, the BER performance is dependent on both the number of hops and the network topology Acknowledgments This research is funded by Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) under grant number 102.04-2012.39 123 K Ho-Van Appendix This appendix derives Pt in (7) Let x = hˆ t P and y = |h t P | Then the joint pdf of x and y is expressed as [26] − η y x +ηx y 4x ye ηx η y (1−ρx y ) I0 f x,y (x, y) = ηx η y − ρx y √ √ ρx y x y ηx η y − ρx y , (18) where ηx = E x = ηt P − σt P , η y = E y = ηt P , and ρx y is the power correlation coefficient var x var y , we finally obtain Using (2) and the definition of ρx y = cov x , y ρx y = − σt P ηt P (19) The joint pdf of z = x and w = y can be achieved from that of x and y after the variable transformation After some simplifications, we get the joint pdf of z and w as − ηt P z+(ηt P −σt P )w e (ηt P −σt P )σt P f z,w (z, w) = I0 (ηt P − σt P ) σt P √ zw , σt P (20) where z, w > and I0 () is the zeroth-order modified Bessel function of the first kind [27, eq (8.431.1)] We express Pt as ∞ ρy Pt = Pr {ρw > z} = f z,w (x, y) d xd y = 0 ∞ ρy − ηt P x+(ηt P −σt P ) y e (ηt P −σt P )σt P 0 (ηt P − σt P ) σt P I0 √ xy σt P d xd y (21) After changing the variable of t = Pt = − ηt P ∞ e − ηy tr Q √ x and applying [28, eq (10)], we simplify (21) as (ηt P − σt P ) √ y, ηt P σ t P 2ρηt P √ y dy, (ηt P − σt P ) σt P (22) where Q(a, b) is the first-order Marcum Q-function [28, eq (1)] √ Finally, we reduce (22) to (7) after changing the 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