Outage Performance of Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks under Joint Constraints of Co-Channel Interference, Intercept Probability and Hardware Imperfection

Abstract

This paper evaluates outage probability (OP) of a cooperative underlay cognitive radio network in the presence of a passive secondary eavesdropper under joint impacts of limited interference from a primary network and hardware impairments. With intercept probability constraint required for the eavesdropper and interference constraint given by a primary receiver, we derive closed-form expressions of transmit power for the secondary transmitters, including source and relays, only relying on the knowledge of statistical channel state information (CSI). Then, a relay selection method is used in the cooperative phase to enhance the OP performance of the considered protocol. For performance evaluation, we derive an exact closed-form expression of OP over Rayleigh fading channel. Finally, we perform Monte Carlo simulations to verify the derived formulas.