In this paper, we focus on cooperative spectrum access in a cognitive radio networks (CRN), where secondary users (SUs) serve as relays for primary users (PUs) to improve their throughput, and in return SUs can gain transmission opportunities. To optimize the overall utility of a cooperative CRN, we first investigate the cooperation between a single pair of PU and SU with Stackelberg game model, where PU deter- mines access time allocation while SU determines relaying power for the PU. Based on the analytical results, cooperation pairing between multi- ple PUs and SUs is modeled as a bipartite matching problem and solved using Gale-Shapley algorithm. Numerical results demonstrate that, with the proposed schemes, overall utility for PUs and SUs can be balanced with low computational complexity.
['Lifeng Hao', 'Sixing Yin', 'Zhaowei Qu']
Cooperative Game and Relay Pairing in Cognitive Radio Networks