Abstract
In cognitive radio, accurate spectrum sensing is essential to optimally use the available spectrum opportunities. On the other hand, energy is a scarce resource especially in cognitive sensor networks. In this study, the authors combine both these conflicting requirements and propose an energy-aware secondary user selection algorithm for cognitive sensor networks. First, an optimisation problem is solved to obtain the minimum required number of cognitive users, whereas satisfying the system requirements. Second, the most eligible cognitive users are identified through a probability-based approach. They study two extreme cases by focusing on either energy or accuracy parameters. By numerical analysis, it is shown that the accuracy benchmark is increased by as much as 39% by only considering the sensing accuracy, and the energy benchmark is reduced by as low as 76% by only considering the remaining level of energy. In addition, they conduct computer simulation and compare the network's lifetime at several sensing accuracy thresholds. It is elaborated that greater sensing accuracy thresholds lead to longer network lifetime. Finally, the effects of several fusion rules on the proposed method are studied through simulation and numerical analyses. It is discussed that the Majority rule has the best performance among the examined rules.
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