Preventing the transmission of harmful cognitive radio users in the presence of primary users

Abstract

A cognitive radio provides access to a licensed spectrum for unlicensed users opportunistically provided that they are not harmful for licensed users (primary users). We call a cognitive radio user (CR user) harmful, when it generates interference for primary users (PU) or occupies spectrum holes excessively. This paper discusses the spectrum management policy against harmful CR users. For this, we design a jammer signal which ruins transmission of harmful CR users and forces them to leave the spectrum without damaging the communication of PUs. This signal is designed using group subspace technique for both synchronous and asynchronous channels. Our simulation results show that the designed jammer signal generates effective interference to harmful CR user while maintains performance of PUs.