Spectrum-Occupancy Aware Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Using Adaptive Detection

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Abstract

In this paper, an efficient adaptive detection scheme is proposed for cognitive radio networks where multiple secondary users (SUs) cooperate to identify idle spectrum bands. Each SU generates a binary local decision, which is then transmitted either directly or via the assistance of intermediate relays to a cognitive radio base station (CRBS), where the global decision is made. The fusion process at the CRBS is performed using the local binary decisions made by the individual SUs. The local binary decisions at the relays and CRBS are regenerated based on dynamic thresholds, which are chosen to minimize the probability of the spectrum sensing error (PSSE) by considering the imbalanced nature of the spectrum occupancy, as well as the reliability of the decisions made by the SUs. The PSSE performance is derived where a closed-form analytical expression is obtained. The analytical results corroborated by Monte Carlo simulation show that using adaptive detection can reduce the PSSE significantly as compared to the conventional detection approach.

Original languageBritish English
Article number8753528
Pages (from-to)2225-2236
Number of pages12
JournalIEEE Systems Journal
Volume14
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2020

Keywords

  • Cognitive radio network (CRN)
  • cooperative communications
  • decision fusion
  • decode-and-forward
  • distributed spectrum sensing
  • relays

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