Abstract
Conference Title: GLOBECOM 2018 - 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference Conference Start Date: 2018, Dec. 9 Conference End Date: 2018, Dec. 13 Conference Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Cognitive radio (CR) systems can improve radio spectrum utilization by allowing secondary access of underutilized spectrum resources. With interweave cognitive implementation, secondary users have to wait for spectrum opportunities before their transmission. Therefore, the total delivery time of secondary transmission consists of both waiting slots and transmission slots. In this work, we study the resulting extended delivery time (EDT) of secondary transmission for a fixed amount of data over multiple primary channels. In particular, a birth-death process is introduced to model the number of available primary channels, based on which, we derive the distribution function of the EDT for both continuous and periodic sensing cases. We also present selected numerical results to illustrate the mathematical formulation.