Outage probability of cognitive radio-NOMA assisted unmanned aerial vehicles network

Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicles have been applied and play a critical role in radio surveillance because of their flexibility, mobility, and likely line-of-sight to ground destinations. Here, UAVs provide LoS links to users in the communication shadow of obstructive buildings. This paper investigates a cognitive radio network system model between unmanned aerial vehicles to transfer information from a licensed primary device to unlicensed users in a secondary network. In which PN users rely on non-orthogonal multiple access to prevent interference with each other. The primary objective of this study is to examine the outage probability of the secondary users with perfect and imperfect successive interference cancellation applications. Finally, we derive the users’ exact closed-form expressions and use Monte Carlo simulations to validate the analytical results.