COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORKS WITH MULTIPLE SECONDARY USERS UNDER TWO KINDS OF PRIORITY SCHEMES: PERFORMANCE COMPARISON AND OPTIMIZATION

In this paper, we consider a cognitive radio network with multiple Secondary Users (SUs). The SU packets generated from the SUs are divided into SU1 packets and SU2 packets, and the SU1 packets have higher priority than the SU2 packets. Different from the conventional preemptive priority scheme (called Scheme I), we propose a non-preemptive priority scheme for the SU1 packets (called Scheme II) to guarantee the transmission continuity of the SU2 packets. By constructing a three-dimensional Markov chain, we give the transition probability matrix of the Markov chain, and obtain the steady-state distribution of the system model. Accordingly, we derive some performance measures, such as the channel utilization, the blocking probability of the SU1 packets, the interruption probability of the SU1 packets and the SU2 packets, the normalized throughput of the SU1 packets, and the average latency of the SU2 packets. Moreover, we provide numerical experiments to compare different performance measures between the two priority schemes. Finally, we show and compare the Nash equilibrium strategy and the socially optimal strategy for the SU2 packets between Scheme I and Scheme II.