Secondary User Access Control (SUAC) via Quadratic Programming in Massive MIMO Cognitive Radio Networks

Abstract

In cognitive radio (CR) networks, a secondary user access control (SUAC) technique has been designed to enhance spectrum efficiency, in which a jamming signal is deliberately injected to maintain reliable sensing performance of authorized secondary users (A-SUs) and degrades unauthorized secondary users (UA-SUs) spectrum sensing results. We consider the problem of jamming signal design in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) CR networks wherein each primary user has a larger number of antennas that coexists with multiple secondary users. In this paper, we propose a jamming signal design framework that combines maximizing the jammer’s influences on UA-SUs and minimizing on A-SUs. The resulting problem is a non-convex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) problem, and a semidefinite relaxation (SDR) method can be one of the approximate solutions but cannot meet our stringent constraints and lacks jamming efficiency. We propose a novel optimization algorithm based on the $K$ -best methodology to design the jamming signal. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed $K$ -best based SUAC method in improving the spectrum sensing performance of A-SUs.

Keywords

• Cognitive radio (CR)
• massive MIMO
• spectrum sensing
• access control
• quadratic programming