文摘
For cognitive relay networks (CRNs) where the secondary link contains multiple relays, considering the interference from primary user (PU) and the maximum transmit power constraint at the secondary user, we investigate the exact and asymptotic outage probabilities for both proactive and reactive decode-and-forward (DF) schemes. Unlike the conventional opportunistic relay networks where the outage probabilities for both proactive and reactive DF schemes are the same, it is found that an outage gap of the two schemes does exist for the CRNs. It is shown that the outage gap tends to zero when the interference caused by PU is high enough and the outage gap increases with the increase of the difference between the threshold signal-to-interference-and-noise ratios at relay and destination.