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Abstract-This paper studies a green paradigm for the underlay coexistence of primary users (PUs) and secondary users (SUs) in energy harvesting cognitive radio networks (EH-CRNs), wherein battery-free SUs capture both the spectrum and the energy of PUs to enhance spectrum efficiency and green energy utilization. To lower the transmit powers of SUs, we employ multi-hop transmission with time division multiple access, by which SUs first harvest energy from the RF signals of PUs, and then, transmit data in the allocated time concurrently with PUs, all in the licensed spectrum. In this way, the available transmit energy of each SU mainly depends on the harvested energy before the turn to transmit, namely energy causality. Meanwhile, the transmit powers of SUs must be strictly controlled to protect PUs from harmful interference. Thus, subject to the energy causality constraint and the interference power constraint, we study the end-to-end throughput maximization problem for optimal time and power allocation. To solve this nonconvex problem, we first equivalently transform it into a convex optimization problem and then propose the joint optimal time and power allocation (JOTPA) algorithm that iteratively solves a series of feasibility problems until convergence. Extensive simulations evaluate the performance of EH-CRNs with JOTPA in three typical deployment scenarios and validate the superiority of JOTPA by making comparisons with two other resource allocation algorithms.

Channel acquisition is one of the main challenges for the deployment of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided communication system. This is because RIS has a large number of reflective elements, which are passive devices without active transmitting/receiving and signal processing abilities. In this paper, we study the uplink channel estimation for the RIS aided multi-user multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system. Specifically, we propose a novel channel estimation protocol for the above system to estimate the cascade channel, which consists of the channels from the base station (BS) to the RIS and from the RIS to the user. Further, we recognize the cascaded channels are typically sparse, this allows us to formulate the channel estimation problem into a sparse channel matrix recovery problem using the compressive sensing (CS) technique, with which we can achieve robust channel estimation with limited training overhead. In particular, the sparse channel matrixes of the cascaded channels of all users have a common row-columnblock sparsity structure due to the common channel between BS and RIS. By considering such a common sparsity, we further propose a two-step procedure based multi-user joint channel estimator. In the first step, by considering common column-block sparsity, we project the signal into the common column subspace for reducing complexity, quantization error, and noise level. In the second step, by considering common row-block sparsity, we apply all the projected signals to formulate a multi-user joint sparse matrix recovery problem, and we propose an iterative approach to solve this non-convex problem efficiently. Moreover, the optimization of the training reflection sequences at the RIS is studied to improve the estimation performance.

Abstract-This letter studies the outage performance of multihop cognitive relay networks with energy harvesting in underlay paradigms, wherein the secondary users are powered by a dedicated power beacon (PB) and their transmit powers are subject to the harvested energy from PB and the interference constraint from the primary user. We derive the exact outage probability for Rayleigh block fading and prove that the outage probability is monotonically decreasing with respect to the transmit power of PB. Furthermore, we derive the asymptotic outage probability to study the outage saturation phenomenon and propose an iterative algorithm that jointly optimizes the transmit power of PB and the harvest-to-transmit ratio to approximate the minimum outage probability. Simulation results validate the theoretical results.

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