Impact of primary networks on the performance of energy harvesting cognitive radio networks

In this paper, we investigate the effect of of the primary network on the secondary network when harvesting energy in cognitive radio in the presence of multiple power beacons and multiple secondary transmitters. In particular, the influence of the primary transmitter’s transmit power on the energy harvesting secondary network is examined by studying two scenarios of primary transmitter’s location, i.e., the primary transmitter’s location is near to the secondary network, where the primary transmitter can interfere the secondary receiver, and the primary transmitter’s location is far from the secondary network, where the secondary receiver is free from the interference. In addition, the peak interference constraint at the primary receiver is also considered. In the scenario where the primary transmitter locates near to the secondary network, although secondary transmitter can be benefit from the harvested energy from the primary transmitter, the interference caused by the primary transmitter suppresses the secondary network performance. Meanwhile, in both scenarios, despite the fact that the transmit power of the secondary transmitter can be improved by the support of powerful power beacons, the peak interference constraint at the primary receiver limits this advantage. In addition, the deployment of multiple power beacons and multiple secondary transmitters can improve the performance of the secondary network. The analytical expressions of the outage probability of the secondary network in the two scenarios are also provided and verified by numerical simulations. J. Zhang, N.-P. Nguyen, J. Zhang, and E. Garcia-Palacios are with Queen’s University Belfast, UK (email: {jzhang22, pnguyen04, jzhang20}@qub.ac.uk. and [email protected]). N. P. Le is with Duy Tan University, Vietnam (email: [email protected]). This work was supported by the Newton Institutional Link under Grant ID 172719890.