Abstract
The spectrum sensing performance depends on the accuracy of the detection about whether primary users are busy or idle. Previous studies on cognitive radio spectrum sensing have shown that the cooperation between secondary users can improve their spectrum detection performance in real cognitive networks. Aiming at the problem of threshold mismatch of energy detectors under noise power uncertainty, a cooperative spectrum sensing method with dynamic dual threshold is proposed. Firstly, the utility function is defined with the objective of minimizing the error probability of spectrum sensing, and the optimum threshold of energy detector is derived. Secondly, in order to mitigate the influence derived from noise uncertainty, an effective dynamic dual threshold adjustment mechanism is presented, and the optimizing combinative fusion rule is discussed with the prerequisite of the minimum global error probability. In addition, in view of insufficient number of cognitive users whose sensing results lie in decision zones, the parameter of credibility is defined to choose the secondary users with reliable local detection for final fusion. Simulation results show that our proposed method can mitigate the influence of noise uncertainty and increase the spectrum sensing accuracy compared with other existing methods.
Highlights
The rapid development of wireless communications has brought endless new types of services or applications for human beings
Due to the influence of noise uncertainty are significant, especially if the primary users (PUs)’s signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is below a certain level, we examine the sensing performance on the low SNR scenarios
It can be observed that the spectrum-sensing performance is significantly improved by using the proposed dynamic dual threshold cooperative spectrum sensing approach compared with the traditional energy detection methods, under very low SNR circumstances
Summary
The rapid development of wireless communications has brought endless new types of services or applications for human beings. We propose a dynamic dual threshold cooperative spectrum sensing method to improve detection accuracy and alleviate the sensing failure problem under noise power uncertainty.
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