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What is Rayleigh Fading

Chapter 27
Handbook of Research on Software-Defined and Cognitive Radio Technologies for Dynamic Spectrum Management
Rayleigh distribution is a common and useful model to statistically describe the envelope of the received signal in a fading environment, where the number of multiple reflective paths is large, and there is no line-of-sight signal component (e.g., heavily built-up urban environments).
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Interference Statistics and Capacity-Outage Analysis in Cognitive Radio Networks
Mahsa Derakhshani (University of Toronto, Canada) and Tho Le-Ngoc (McGill University, Canada)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 34
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6571-2.ch027
Abstract
This chapter presents a study on the interference caused by Secondary Users (SUs) due to miss-detection errors and its effects on the capacity-outage performance of the Primary User (PU) in a cognitive radio network assuming Rayleigh and Nakagami fading channels. The effect of beacon transmitter placement on aggregate interference distribution and capacity-outage performance is studied considering two scenarios of beacon transmitter placement: a beacon transmitter located at a PU transmitter or at a PU receiver. Based on the developed statistical models for the interference distribution, closed-form expressions for the capacity-outage probability of the PU are derived to examine the effects of various system parameters on the performance of the PU in the presence of interference from SUs. Furthermore, the model is extended to investigate the cooperative sensing effect on aggregate interference statistical model and capacity-outage performance considering OR (i.e., logical OR operation) and Maximum Likelihood (ML) cooperative detection techniques.
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