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Table 1 Explanation of adopted symbols

From: Power minimization of cooperative beamforming networks with spectrum sharing

Symbol

Explanation

y j

Received signal at the jth node

h i j

Channel coefficient from ith to jth node

P ij

Transmitting power per bandwidth from the ith node to the

 

jth node

x i

Transmitting signal at the ith node

W

Transmission bandwidth

N o

Spectral density height of thermal noise

n j

Thermal noise

λ ij

Rate parameter of exponential distribution

d ij

Distance between the ith and jth nodes

R d

Direct transmission data rate

γ d

Transmitting SINR of direct transmission

h d

Channel coefficient of direct transmission

R c

Data rate of PR

\(R_{p{s_{k}}}\phantom {\dot {i}\!}\)

Data rate of the link of PT-SR k

R MRC

Data rate of MRC

γ p

Ratio between the transmission signal power over the noise

 

variance for PU

\(h_{p{s_{k}}}\phantom {\dot {i}\!}\)

Channel coefficient of the link PT-SR k

\(\gamma _{{s_{k}}d}\phantom {\dot {i}\!}\)

Ratio between the transmission signal power over the noise

 

variance between ST k and PR

\(h_{{s_{k}}d}\phantom {\dot {i}\!}\)

Channel coefficient of the link ST k -PR

\(R_{{su}_{k}}\phantom {\dot {i}\!}\)

Data rate of the kth SU

\(\gamma _{{su}_{k}}\phantom {\dot {i}\!}\)

Ratio between the transmission signal power over the noise

 

variance for the kth SU

\(h_{{su}_{k}}\phantom {\dot {i}\!}\)

Channel coefficient of the link ST-SR

R N

Cooperative network throughput

T

Time for the 1st and 2nd phase transmission

t k

Time for the third phase transmission

P p

Transmitting power of PT

P d

Transmitting power of non-cooperative scheme

\(P_{{s_{k}}d}\phantom {\dot {i}\!}\)

Transmitting power of the ST k

\({P_{s{u_{k}}}}\phantom {\dot {i}\!}\)

Transmitting power of the third phase

w k

Beamforming weight of the ST k

P OV

Circuit power

P SR

Overheads of cooperative beamforming

P TR

Overheads of message sharing

P c

Circuit power

M

Number of cooperative SUs

b RD

Number of bits per symbol for cooperative beamforming

b SR

Number of bits per symbol for message sharing

ρ

Amplifier efficiency

N TR

Number of symbols of training period

N RD

Number of symbols of cooperative beamforming

P b

Power consumption per throughput

β k

Time allocation ratio of the kth SU

Q p

QoS of PU

Q s

QoS of SU

\(P_{\mathrm {d}}^{\text {out}}\)

Outage probability of direct transmission

\(C_{\text {d}}^{\text {out}}\)

Outage capacity of direct transmission

Csuout

Outage capacity of SU

ε

Outage probability threshold

\(C_{\text {cb}}^{{\text {out}}}\)

Outage capacity of cooperative beamforming

η

Energy efficiency

θ 1

SNR threshold for decoding

θ 2

SNR of the worst link between ST k and PR

d p

Distance between PT and PR

\({d_{{s_{k}}d}}\phantom {\dot {i}\!}\)

Distance between PT and PR

d su

Distance between ST and SR

\({d_{p{s_{k}}}}\phantom {\dot {i}\!}\)

Distance between PT and ST

P max

Maximum transmitting power

γ d

Ratio between the direct transmission signal power over the

 

noise variance

ζ

Network energy consumption for unit bit of throughput

L s

Number of SUs

v

Moving speed of users