Joint spectrum access and power allocation in full-duplex cognitive cellular networks

Recently, the development in full-duplex communications has offered a great opportunity to perform simultaneous spectrum sensing and spectrum access in cognitive radio networks. In this paper, we consider a cognitive cellular network, in which the secondary base station (SBS) is a full-duplex device that can simultaneously sense the primary spectrum and transmit to the secondary users. We show that the power allocation of the SBS can affect both the sensing performance and the transmission capacity, and thus, we jointly consider the power allocation problem in the spectrum management process. First, we formulate the considered problem as a 3-dimensional matching problem and prove its NP-hardness. Then, we propose an approximate solution by extending a 2-dimensional matching algorithm. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can highly increase the secondary throughput of the SBS, compared with the greedy algorithm and the random algorithm.