Optimized Cooperative Multiple Access in Industrial Cognitive Networks

Abstract

We consider optimized cooperation in joint orthogonal multiple access and nonorthogonal multiple access in industrial cognitive networks, in which lots of devices may have to share spectrum and some devices (e.g., those for critical control devices) have higher transmission priority, known as primary users. We consider one secondary transmitter (less important devices) as a potential relay between a primary transmitter and receiver pair. The choice of cooperation scheme differs in terms of use cases. With decode-and-forward relaying, the channel between the primary and secondary users limits the achievable rates especially when it experiences poor channel conditions. To alleviate this problem, we apply analog network coding to directly combine the received primary message for relaying with the secondary message. We find achievable rate regions for these two schemes over Rayleigh fading channels. We then investigate an optimization problem jointly considering orthogonal multiple access and nonorthogonal multiple access, where the secondary rate is maximized under the constraint of maintaining the primary rate. We find both analytical solutions as well as solutions based on experiments through the time sharing strategy between the primary and secondary system and the transmit power allocation strategy at the secondary transmitter. We show the performance improvements of exploiting analog network coding and the impacts of cooperative schemes and user geometry on achievable rates and resource sharing strategies.