Optimal cooperative energy spectrum sensing in cognitive radio network

Abstract

Cooperative energy spectrum sensing has been proved effective to detect the spectrum holes in cognitive radio (CR). In this paper, we present the optimal energy sensing algorithm in CR network and prove its optimality through the duality theorem of Neyman-Pearson theorem. Then, the optimal energy sensing algorithm is expanded to a cooperative sensing algorithm based on channel covariance matrix. We compare the proposed algorithms with traditional cooperative sensing algorithms in terms of complexity and required transmission bits. Simulation results validate the optimality of the proposed cooperative sensing algorithm. Furthermore, it is intuitively reasonable for the sensing station to choose the sensing nodes with better channel condition to cooperate, which is verified by our analysis and simulation.

Keywords

cognitive radio (CR) / cooperative sensing / likelihood-ratio test

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2007AA01Z289), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60832008), and the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2007CB310608).

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