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        1 - A New Cooperative Approach for Cognitive Radio Networks with Correlated Wireless Channels
        Mehdi  Ghamari Adian Hassan Aghaeenia
        An effective cooperative cognitive radio system is proposed, when the wireless channels are highly correlated. The system model consists of two multi-antenna secondary users (SU TX and SU RX), constituting the desired link and some single-antenna primary and secondary u More
        An effective cooperative cognitive radio system is proposed, when the wireless channels are highly correlated. The system model consists of two multi-antenna secondary users (SU TX and SU RX), constituting the desired link and some single-antenna primary and secondary users. The objective is the maximization of the data rates of the desired SU link subject to the interference constraints on the primary users. An effective system, exploiting Transmit Beamforming (TB) at SU TX, cooperation of some single-antenna SUs and Cooperative Beamforming (CB) at them and the antenna selection at SU RX to reduce the costs associated with RF-chains at the radio front end at SU RX, is proposed. Due to the issue of MIMO channels with correlated fading, some problems arise such as inapplicability of the well-known Grassmanian Beamforming as TB scheme at SU TX. We then propose a method to overcome this problem. After formulating the problem, a novel iterative scheme is proposed to find the best TB weight vector in SU TX and best subset of antennas at SU RX, considering the correlated channel. Manuscript profile
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        2 - Joint Relay Selection and Power Allocation in MIMO Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks
        Mehdi  Ghamari Adian Hassan Aghaeenia
        In this work, the issue of joint relay selection and power allocation in Underlay MIMO Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks (U-MIMO-CCRN) is addressed. The system consists of a number of secondary users (SUs) in the secondary network and a primary user (PU) in the prima More
        In this work, the issue of joint relay selection and power allocation in Underlay MIMO Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks (U-MIMO-CCRN) is addressed. The system consists of a number of secondary users (SUs) in the secondary network and a primary user (PU) in the primary network. We consider the communications in the link between two selected SUs, referred to as the desired link which is enhanced using the cooperation of one of the existing SUs. The core aim of this work is to maximize the achievable data rate in the desired link, using the cooperation of one of the SUs which is chosen opportunistically out of existing SUs. Meanwhile, the interference due to the secondary transmission on the PU should not exceed the tolerable amount. The approach to determine the optimal power allocation, i.e. the optimal transmits covariance and amplification matrices of the SUs, and also the optimal cooperating SU is proposed. Since the proposed optimal approach is a highly complex method, a low complexity approach is further proposed and its performance is evaluated using simulations. The simulation results reveal that the performance loss due to the low complexity approach is only about 14%, while the complexity of the algorithm is greatly reduced. Manuscript profile
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        3 - Hybrid Beamforming in MIMO Systems via Matrix Decomposition
             
        MIMO systems, and particularly massive MIMO systems, achieve high spectral efficiency by using a large number of antennas. An important issue in these systems is beamforming. In fully digital baseband beamforming, an RF chain is required for each antenna, which leads to More
        MIMO systems, and particularly massive MIMO systems, achieve high spectral efficiency by using a large number of antennas. An important issue in these systems is beamforming. In fully digital baseband beamforming, an RF chain is required for each antenna, which leads to high cost and power consumption. In analog beamforming, only one RF chain is used and beamforming is performed by using phase shifters. This method does not provide optimal spectral efficiency and thus, analog-digital hybrid methods for beamforming are considered. In this paper, a hybrid beamforming method is proposed in which the required number of RF chains is much less than fully digital method. The precoder and receiver filter are designed by maximizing the spectral efficiency. To this end, the optimal beamforming matrix (which contains the right singular vectors of the channel matrix) is approximated by the product of two analog and digital beamforming matrices. This approximation is improved by an iterative method. The criterion for the proximity of the two matrices is considered to be the Frobenius norm of their differences. In the receiver, the design of the hybrid beamforming is performed in a similar way, using the mean squares error criterion. Also, to improve the method, a gradient-based algorithm is proposed to further reduce the error. The simulation results show the performance superiority of the proposed method over similar methods as well as its less complexity. Manuscript profile