Optimal queue scheduling for hybrid cognitive radio maintaining maximum average service rate under delay constraints

As a promising technique of improving the attainable bandwidth efficiency, cognitive radio (CR) has attracted substantial attention from both the academic and industrial communities. In order to improve the performance of the secondary user (SU), a novel hybrid CR system is introduced, which combines the conventional interweave and underlay paradigms for enhancing the chances of the SU to access the spectrum. Queuing theory is invoked in this paper for analysing the impact of the primary user's (PU) delay tolerance on the performance of the SU. Multiple queues are assumed for the SU engaging in video communication. Besides the Poisson traffic generation, we model a Rayleigh fading channel as a Poisson service process with the aid of the outage probability in the presence of cochannel interferences. Two valuable goals are achieved, namely that of maximizing the average service rate and minimizing the overall average delay of the SU's multiple queues. As our numerical results demonstrate, the overall average delay of the SU becomes 27% and 34% lower than that of the Proportional as well as that of the Round-Robin schemes respectively.