Joint spectrum sharing and power allocation for secondary users in cognitive radio networks

Spectrum sharing and power allocation are interesting issues in cognitive radio networks. In our paper, we introduce a pricing scheme to demonstrate the spectrum sharing scenario between primary users and secondary users. We demonstrate the joint optimal allocation scheme of both spectrum and power for secondary users buying spectrum from multiple primary users. The joint optimal allocation scheme maximizes secondary users' utilities while primary users' utilities meet certain requirements. Moreover, we illustrate a distributed resource allocation scheme to jointly optimize usage of power and spectrum when each secondary user does not know others' buying strategies. Our simulation results show that under some utility requirements, the joint optimized resource allocation scheme has 3dB gain over that under even resource allocation.