Resource Allocation for Outage Probability Minimization in Cognitive Wireless Powered Communication Networks

Abstract

This paper considers a cognitive wireless powered communication network (CWPCN) consisting of a cognitive base station (CBS) and a set of secondary users (SUs) sharing spectrum with a primary user (PU). The transmission time is assumed to be divided into two parts, where the CBS transfers energy in the downlink during the first time part, and the SUs use the harvested energy to transmit in the uplink based on the time-division multiple access (TDMA) during the second time part. We investigate the problem for minimizing the average outage probability of the SUs by jointly optimizing the time allocation and the downlink transmit power allocation under the interference power and the transmit power constraints and propose a heuristic algorithm to solve it. Simulations show that the proposed algorithm greatly outperforms the benchmark algorithms.