Mobile edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer (WPT) are two promising techniques to enhance the computation capability and to prolong the operational time of low-power wireless devices that are ubiquitous in Internet of Things. However, the computation performance and the harvested energy are significantly impacted by the severe propagation loss. In order to address this issue, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled MEC wireless powered system is studied in this paper. The computation rate maximization problems in a UAV-enabled MEC wireless powered system are investigated under both partial and binary computation offloading modes, subject to the energy harvesting causal constraint and the UAV's speed constraint. These problems are non-convex and challenging to solve. A two-stage algorithm and a three-stage alternative algorithm are respectively proposed for solving the formulated problems. The closed-form expressions for the optimal central processing unit frequencies, user offloading time, and user transmit power are derived. The optimal selection scheme on whether users choose to locally compute or offload computation tasks is proposed for the binary computation offloading mode. Simulation results show that our proposed resource allocation schemes outperforms other benchmark schemes. The results also demonstrate that the proposed schemes converge fast and have low computational complexity.

A multiple-input single-output cognitive radio downlink network is studied with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer. In this network, a secondary user coexists with multiple primary users and multiple energy harvesting receivers. In order to guarantee secure communication and energy harvesting, the problem of robust secure artificial noise-aided beamforming and power splitting design is investigated under imperfect channel state information (CSI). Specifically, the transmit power minimization problem and the max-min fairness energy harvesting problem are formulated for both the bounded CSI error model and the probabilistic CSI error model. These problems are non-convex and challenging to solve.A one-dimensional search algorithm is proposed to solve these problems based on S-Procedure under the bounded CSI error model and based on Bernstein-type inequalities under the probabilistic CSI error model. It is shown that the optimal robust secure beamforming can be achieved under the bounded CSI error model, whereas a suboptimal beamforming solution can be obtained under the probabilistic CSI error model. A tradeoff is elucidated between the secrecy rate of the secondary user receiver and the energy harvested by the energy harvesting receivers under a max-min fairness criterion. USA (e-mail: lee880716@gmail.com).The research was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (61301179, 61501356, 61501354 and 61401338) and a scholarship from China Scholarship Council. Index TermsCognitive radio, physical-layer secrecy, robust beamforming, wireless information and power transfer.

Cognitive radio (CR) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) have been deemed two promising technologies due to their potential to achieve high spectral efficiency and massive connectivity. This paper studies a multiple-input singleoutput NOMA CR network relying on simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) conceived for supporting a massive population of power limited battery-driven devices. In contrast to most of the existing works, which use an ideally linear energy harvesting model, this study applies a more practical non-linear energy harvesting model. In order to improve the security of the primary network, an artificial-noise-aided cooperative jamming scheme is proposed. The artificial-noiseaided beamforming design problems are investigated subject to the practical secrecy rate and energy harvesting constraints. Specifically, the transmission power minimization problems are formulated under both perfect channel state information (CSI) and the bounded CSI error model. The problems formulated are non-convex, hence they are challenging to solve. A pair of algorithms either using semidefinite relaxation (SDR) or a cost function are proposed for solving these problems. Our simulation results show that the proposed cooperative jamming scheme succeeds in establishing secure communications and NOMA is capable of outperforming the conventional orthogonal multiple access in terms of its power efficiency. Finally, we demonstrate that the cost function algorithm outperforms the SDR-based algorithm.

The explosive growth of mobile devices and the rapid increase of wideband wireless services call for advanced communication techniques that can achieve high spectral efficiency and meet the massive connectivity requirement. Cognitive radio (CR) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) are envisioned to be important solutions for the fifth generation wireless networks. Integrating NOMA techniques into CR networks (CRNs) has the tremendous potential to improve spectral efficiency and increase the system capacity. However, there are many technical challenges due to the severe interference caused by using NOMA. Many efforts have been made to facilitate the application of NOMA into CRNs and to investigate the performance of CRNs with NOMA. This article aims to survey the latest research results along this direction. A taxonomy is devised to categorize the literature based on operation paradigms, enabling techniques, design objectives and optimization characteristics. Moreover, the key challenges are outlined to provide guidelines for the domain researchers and designers to realize CRNs with NOMA. Finally, the open issues are discussed.Cognitive radio, non-orthogonal multiple access, spectral efficiency, massive connectivity. I. INTRODUCTIONT HE explosive growth of mobile devices, the rapidly increasing demand on the broadband and highrate communication services, such as augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), and the fixed spectrum assignment policy result in the increasingly severe spectrum scarcity problem. According to the third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), compared with the fourth generation (4G) networks, the fifth generation (5G) networks are required to achieve 1000 times higher system capacity, 10 times higher spectral efficiency (SE), and 100 times higher connectivity density [1]. Moreover, among these requirements, meeting the system capacity is the most important but probably the most challenging one due to the limited spectrum resource. Thus, it is imperative to develop advanced communication techniques that can achieve high SE as well as massive wireless connectivity. As a promising technique, cognitive radio (CR) has drawn significant attention in both industry and academia due to its high SE [2]. It can enable the secondary network (or called the unlicensed network) to access the licensed frequency bands of the primary network by using adaptive transmission strategies while protecting the quality-of-service (QoS) of the primary one.Besides CR, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) techniques are promising to improve SE and user connectivity density [4], [5]. Unlike the conventional orthogonal multiple access (OMA) techniques, NOMA techniques allow multiple users simultaneously access the network at the same time and the same frequency band by using non-orthogonal resources, such as different power levels or low-density spreading codes. In [5], the authors have classified the existing dominant NOMA schemes into two categories based on the non-orthogonality resources, namely, power-...

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Energy-efficient computation is an inevitable trend for mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. Resource allocation strategies for maximizing the computation efficiency are critically important. In this paper, computation efficiency maximization problems are formulated in wireless-powered MEC networks under both partial and binary computation offloading modes. A practical non-linear energy harvesting model is considered. Both time division multiple access (TDMA) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) are considered and evaluated for offloading. The energy harvesting time, the local computing frequency, and the offloading time and power are jointly optimized to maximize the computation efficiency under the max-min fairness criterion. Two iterative algorithms and two alternative optimization algorithms are respectively proposed to address the non-convex problems formulated in this paper. Simulation results show that the proposed resource allocation schemes outperform the benchmark schemes in terms of user fairness. Moreover, a tradeoff is elucidated between the achievable computation efficiency and the total number of computed bits. Furthermore, simulation results demonstrate that the partial computation offloading mode outperforms the binary computation offloading mode and NOMA outperforms TDMA in terms of computation efficiency.

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