Cyclostationarity-Based Decision Reporting Scheme for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing

Abstract

Cooperative spectrum sensing has emerged as a promising solution to the hidden terminal problem in cognitive radio networks (CRNs). It could significantly promote the sensing capability of CRNs by exploiting space diversity gains in a fading environment. However, owing to the decision reporting overhead, there exists a tradeoff between the system throughput and performance of cooperative spectrum sensing. In this paper, we propose a cyclostationarity-based decision reporting scheme for cooperative spectrum sensing in CRNs with cyclic delay diversity orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CDD-OFDM). Decision information would be embedded into the CDD-OFDM signals in terms of cyclostationary signatures and shared among cognitive radio (CR) users along with data transmissions. As a result, satisfied system throughput could be achieved without additional spectral or temporal resources consumption when the number of cooperative users increases. Numerical results are presented to show the system throughput enhancement.