In cognitive radio communication, unlicensed secondary user (SU) can access underutilized spectrum of the licensed primary user (PU) opportunistically for emerging wireless applications. With interweave implementation, SU has to perform spectrum sensing on the target frequency band and waits for transmission if PU occupies the channel. This waiting time results in extra delay for secondary transmission. In this paper, the delay and throughput performance of secondary packet transmission is evaluated with slotted transmission protocol. We propose a discrete-time Markov model to characterize secondary slotted transmission process. Close-form solution of collision probability is obtained. We then carry out the queuing delay and throughput analysis based on a two-dimensional-finite-state Markov chain for small-size packet transmission. For large-size packets, the distribution function of extended delivery time for secondary packet transmission is also derived. Selected numerical results are presented to illustrate the mathematical formulas and to validate our research results.
arXiv:1704.05159v1 [cs.IT] 18 Apr 2017With interweave implementation, SU performs spectrum sensing 1 for transmission availability. Ideally, SU continuously monitors the target spectrum while transmitting and waiting [4]. As such, no interference is introduced, at the cost of higher energy consumption and implementation complexity. Alternatively, SU can also perform spectrum sensing on a periodic basis. In [5], the statistics of extended delivery time (EDT) is evaluated with continuous spectrum sensing and semi-periodic spectrum sensing strategy, where SU continuously senses the target spectrum while transmitting and periodically senses for availability while waiting. Assuming continuous spectrum sensing, [6] evaluates the statistics of EDT of SU packet transmission under interweave fashion with adaptive modulation. Substantial amount of previous work has been carried out in developing practical accessing strategies with various PU and SU models. Assuming that all the primary users and secondary user share the same slotted transmission structure, authors in [7] design a novel MAC protocol based on optimal and suboptimal spectrum sensing and accessing strategies, where the optimization problem is formulated as a partially observable Markov Decision Process. [8] proposes optimal and suboptimal access protocol by maximizing the throughput of secondary transmission subject to the collision probability constrain, where secondary user adopts slotted transmission coupled with periodic sensing strategy. Authors in [9] propose an optimal sensing order selection strategy for multiple PUs' and multiple SUs' cognitive radio network, where the proposed sensing strategy converges to the collision free channel sensing order when the number of SUs' is less than the number of the channels. In this work, we consider a single PU and single SU cognitive communication scenario, where SU adopts slotted transmission strategy. Collision occurs with periodic spectrum s...