Optimal Transmit Power Control for Energy-Harvesting Cognitive Radio System

This paper proposes an optimal transmit power control policy designed to maximize the average throughput of an energy-harvesting secondary network. As the transmit power increases, the energy-harvesting secondary network can enhance its throughput during a slot, but the probability of being active decreases due to the energy shortage. The probability of colliding with the primary signal also decreases as the transmit power increases. The optimal transmit power can be obtained by analyzing the effect of the transmit power on performance, especially as a function of statistics of harvested energy.