Exploiting multiple antenna cognitive radio system for cooperative spectrum sharing

Abstract

This paper proposes a cooperative spectrum sharing scheme in which multiple antennas of a secondary (aka cognitive) system is exploited to nullify the interference from the primary (aka licensed) to secondary system and vice versa. The secondary system also acts as a "decode-and-forward" relay for the primary system thus boosting its performance. The performance of primary and secondary system is analyzed by obtaining the closed form expressions for outage probability. The simulation results are also shown to validate the theoretical expressions obtained in this paper.