Abstract
Co-operative spectrum sensing emerging as a significant method to improve the utilization of the spectrum needs sufficient sensing users to participate. Existing related papers consider only the limited secondary users in current sensing system and assume that they will always perform the co-operative spectrum sensing out of obligation. However, this assumption is impractical in the realistic situation where the secondary users are rational and they will not join in the co-operative sensing process without a certain reward to compensate their sensing energy consumption, especially the ones who have no data transmitting in current time slot. To solve this problem, we take advantage of the mobile crowd sensing to supply adequate co-operative sensing candidates, in which the sensing users are not only the secondary users but also a crowd of widely distributed mobile users equipped with personal spectrum sensors (such as smartphones, vehicle sensors). Furthermore, a social incentive mechanism is also adapted to motivate the participations of mobile sensing users. In this paper, we model the interactions among the motivated sensing users as a co-operative game where they adjust their own sensing time strategies to maximize the co-operative sensing utility, which eventually guarantees the detection performance and prevents the global sensing cost being too high. We prove that the game based optimization problem is NP-hard and exists a unique optimal equilibrium. An improved differential evolution algorithm is proposed to solve the optimization problem. Simulation results prove the better performance in our proposed multi-user sensing time optimization model and the proposed improved differential evolution algorithm, respectively compared with the non-optimization model and the other two typical equilibrium solution algorithms.
Highlights
Cognitive radio (CR) [1] has attracted significant attention due to its reliability to identify the underutilized licensed spectrum bands and improve the spectral efficiency [2]
The sensing requester (SR) are located in a 5 km × 5 km region where the randomly distributed sensing helpers (SHs), namely the helpful friends and selected strange applicants, are motivated and compose a new co-operative sensing coalition to detect the status of a primary user (PU) and maximize the co-operative sensing utility by adjusting their own sensing time strategies
We design a mobile crowd sensing based co-operative spectrum sensing model where the sensing users are a crowd of widely distributed mobile sensing users equipped with kinds of sensing devices and they are motivated by the social incentives, including the friendship, coalition membership, coalition recognition and the evaluated reputation, which can emerge as a kind of reward to compensate their sensing cost
Summary
Cognitive radio (CR) [1] has attracted significant attention due to its reliability to identify the underutilized licensed spectrum bands and improve the spectral efficiency [2]. A fundamental task for secondary user (SU) in CR is to sense spectrum and detect whether the primary user (PU) is absent. SUs will access the underutilized spectrum immediately and improve the spectrum efficiency. Increasing sensing time guarantees a higher detecting accuracy, yet it may incur to a decreasing achievable throughput due to the reduction of transmitting time. Numerous efforts have been done in the optimization of sensing time [3,4,5] to improve the achievable throughput while preventing the PU from harmful interference. Owing to the overhead cost in spectrum sensing such as time delay and energy consumption, energy efficiency [6,7,8]
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