Energy harvesting in delay-aware cognitive shared access networks

Abstract

In this work, we study the effect of energy harvesting in a cognitive shared access network with delay constraints on the primary user. We model the distribution of secondary nodes by a homogeneous Poisson point process (PPP), while the primary user is located at fixed location. The secondary users are assumed to have always packets to transmit whilst the primary transmitter has bursty traffic. We assume an energy harvesting zone around the primary transmitter and a guard zone around the primary receiver. The secondary users are transmitting in a random access manner, however, transmissions of secondary nodes are restricted by their battery status and location. Targeting at achieving the maximum secondary throughput under primary delay constraints, we analyze the impact of various parameters on the performance of the considered network. Our results provide insights into the optimization of access protocol parameters for the energy harvesting-based cognitive shared access network with delay constraints.