Adaptive resources assignment in OFDM-based cognitive radio systems

Spectrum efficiency of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based cognitive radio (CR) systems can be improved by adaptive resources allocation. In resources allocation, transmission resources such as modulation level and transmission power are adaptively assigned based on channel variations. The goal of this paper is maximize the total transmission rate of secondary user (SU). Hence, we investigate adaptive power and modulation allocation to achieve this purpose. For power allocation, we investigate optimal and conventional methods and then introduce a novel suboptimal algorithm to calculate the transmission power of each subcarrier. In addition, for adaptive modulation, we consider two kinds of modulations including multi-quadrature amplitude modulation (MQAM) and multi-phase-shift keying (MPSK). Also, simulation results are indicated the performance of our algorithm