An Achievable Rate Region for Cognitive Radio Channel With Common Message

The cognitive radio channel with common message (CRCC) is considered. In this channel, similar to the cognitive radio channel (CRC), we have a cognitive user which has full non-causal knowledge of the primary message, and like the interference channel with common message (ICC), the information sources at the two transmitters are statistically dependent and the senders need to transmit not only the private message but also certain common message to their corresponding receivers. By using a specific combination of superposition coding, binning scheme and simultaneous decoding, we propose a unified achievable rate region for the CRCC which subsumes the several existing results for the CRC, ICC, interference channel without common message (IC), strong interference channel and compound multiple access channel with common information (SICC and CMACC). KeywordsAchievable rate region, common message, cognitive radio channel, transmitter cooperation