Abstract
Like the conventional two-user interference channel, the cognitive interference channel consists of two transmitters whose signals interfere at two receivers. It is assumed that there is a common message (message 1) known to both transmitters, and an additional independent message (message 2) known only to the cognitive transmitter (transmitter 2). The cognitive receiver (receiver 2) needs to decode messages 1 and 2, while the noncognitive receiver (receiver 1) should decode only message 1. Furthermore, message 2 is assumed to be a confidential message which needs to be kept as secret as possible from receiver 1, which is viewed as an eavesdropper with regard to message 2. The level of secrecy is measured by the equivocation rate. In this paper, a single-letter expression for the capacity-equivocation region of the discrete memoryless cognitive interference channel is obtained. The capacity-equivocation region for the Gaussian cognitive interference channel is also obtained explicitly. Moreover, particularizing the capacity-equivocation region to the case without a secrecy constraint, the capacity region for the two-user cognitive interference channel is obtained, by providing a converse theorem.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 604-619 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Information Theory |
Volume | 55 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 4 2009 |
Keywords
- Capacity-equivocation region
- Cognitive communication
- Confidential messages
- Interference channel
- Rate splitting
- Secrecy capacity region
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Information Systems
- Computer Science Applications
- Library and Information Sciences