Adaptive Decode-and-Forward Protocol Based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio with Interference at the Secondary Users

In this paper a novel multiple-user cooperative spectrum sensing scheme (MCSS) based on hybrid relay is proposed to achieve the spatial diversity gain in detection of the primary user (PU) in a cognitive radio (CR) network. A practically important case where co-channel interference signals are present at the network is considered for the analysis. Closed-form expressions of detection probability \((\hbox {P}_{\mathrm{d}})\) and false alarm probability \((\alpha )\) for the proposed adaptive decode-and-forward based multiple-user cooperative spectrum sensing scheme (ADF-MCSS) using energy detector over Rayleigh fading sensing channels is derived in presence of co-channel interference at the secondary user which is far away from the PU. Further we extend the concept of two user amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and-forward (DF) cooperative spectrum sensing schemes in multiple-user scenario (i.e. AF-MCSS and DF-MCSS) over Rayleigh fading channels when the secondary user (which is far away from PU) is affected by interference. Closed-form expressions of AF-MCSS and DF-MCSS schemes over a Rayleigh fading channels are also evaluated and compared with that of proposed ADF-MCSS in presence of interference signals at the secondary user. Further the performance analysis of AF-MCSS, DF-MCSS and ADF-MCSS schemes are compared with the existing non-cooperative spectrum sensing schemes in presence of interference at the secondary user. Our analysis is validated by numerical and simulation results for multiple-user CR network. The impact of number of cooperative relays, SNR in sensing channel, energy of interference signal, false alarm on detection probability in proposed ADF, AF and DF schemes is shown.     

基于特征值极限分布的合作频谱感知算法

采用最新的随机矩阵理论,对多个认知用户接收信号采样协方差矩阵的最小特征值的极限分布进行了分析,提出了一种改进的最大最小特征值合作感知和门限判决方法。该算法不需预知授权用户信号的先验知识,且能有效克服噪声不确定度的影响。与现有算法相比,在给定虚警概率时,仿真结果显示该算法判决门限更低、检测概率更高;而且在认知用户和采样数较少时,也能获得很好的检测性能。     

基于可靠次用户信息的协作频谱感知算法研究

对认知无线电系统最基本要求之一就是次用户必须有能力以高的精确率来确定主用户是否存在。而以前对认知无线电频谱感知的研究表明:在实际认知网络中次用户之间的相互协作可以提高其频谱检测性能。然而,对于协作频谱感知而言,随着协作次用户数目的增加,势必会增大用于传输本地检测结果到融合中心的专用控制信道带宽,从而增加系统开销。该文在控制信道带宽有限的约束条件下,提出一种通过考虑可靠次用户信息的协作频谱感知算法来进一步改善频谱检测的性能。该算法的基本思想:只有具有可靠的本地检测结果的次用户才发送自己的检测结果到融合中心,否则,该次用户不发送任何信息。同时,对提出的该算法在理论上进行了推导,通过仿真结果表明:在控制信道带宽受限的约束下,相比于传统的或门协作频谱感知算法,提出的算法能够大大改善对主用户的检测性能。     

Optimization of Cluster-Based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Scheme in Cognitive Radio Networks with Soft Data Fusion

This paper investigates cluster-based cooperative spectrum sensing issues in two-layer hierarchical cognitive radio networks with soft data fusion. We first define a two-phase reporting protocol in the paper. In the first phase, secondary users forward their soft sensing information to cluster heads (CHs) over large-scale fading. In the second phase, all CHs transmit the aggregated soft energy information to the fusion center (FC) with different weights. Thus we derive the network false alarm (FA) and the detection probabilities as functions of the FC decision threshold, the clustering algorithm and different weights. Given a target on the detection probability, minimizing the FA probability is then formulated as a constraint optimization problem within two scenarios including additive white Gaussian noise environment and Rayleigh fading environment. A close-form upper bound of the FA probability is derived and a novel clustering scheme is also proposed for each scenario. Numerical results show that the proposed schemes achieve a satisfying performance.     

Scheme of Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Based on Adaptive Decision Fusion Algorithm

Spectrum sensing is one of the core technologies for cognitive radios(CR),where reliable detection of the signals of primary users(PUs) is precondition for implementing the CR systems.A cooperative spectrum sensing scheme based on an adaptive decision fusion algorithm for spectrum sensing in CR is proposed in this paper.This scheme can estimate the PU prior probability and the miss detection and false alarm probabilities of various secondary users(SU),and make the local decision with the Chair-Varshney rule so that the decisions fusion can be done for the global decision.Simulation results show that the false alarm and miss detection probabilities resulted from the proposed algorithm are significantly lower than those of the single SU,and the performance of the scheme outperforms that of the cooperative detection by using the conventional decision fusion algorithms.     

多用户跳时超宽带系统串行码捕获性能分析

根据超宽带系统多径延迟的特点,该文给出一种易于实现的超宽带跳时串行捕获方法;并在此基础上,着重分析了该系统在多用户环境下的系统捕获性能;最后通过理论推导和数值仿真分析了用户数量、检测概率、虚警概率、判决门限以及平均捕获时间之间的相互制约关系。从结果中看到,随着用户数的增加,检测概率将降低,而判决门限及虚警概率提高,串行捕获时间也将从微秒级增加到毫秒级。     

Robust spectrum sensing under noise uncertainty for spectrum sharing

Spectrum sensing plays an important role in spectrum sharing. Energy detection is generally used because it does not require a priori knowledge of primary user, (PU) signals; however, it is sensitive to noise uncertainty. An order statistics (OS) detector provides inherent protection against nonhomogeneous background signals. However, no analysis has been conducted yet to apply OS detection to spectrum sensing in a wireless channel to solve noise uncertainty. In this paper, we propose a robust spectrum sensing scheme based on generalized order statistics (GOS) and analyze the exact false alarm and detection probabilities under noise uncertainty. From the equation of the exact false alarm probability, the threshold value is calculated to maintain a constant false alarm rate. The detection probability is obtained from the calculated threshold under noise uncertainty. As a fusion rule for cooperative spectrum sensing, we adopt an OR rule, that is, a 1‐out‐of‐N rule, and we call the proposed scheme GOS‐OR. The analytical results show that the GOS‐OR scheme can achieve optimum performance and maintain the desired false alarm rates if the coefficients of the GOS‐OR detector can be correctly selected.     

Overhead-Throughput Tradeoff Under a Novel Frame Structure in Centralized Cooperative Cognitive Networks

Cooperative spectrum sensing plays an important role in cognitive radio networks since it improves the detection performance by exploiting spatial diversity. However, the cooperation among terminals also brings additional communication overhead. In this paper, overhead-throughput tradeoff issues are investigated in four scenarios namely (1) identical sensing channel and perfect reporting channel, (2) identical sensing channel and imperfect reporting channel, (3) different sensing channel and perfect reporting channel, (4) different sensing channel and imperfect reporting channel of each secondary user (SU). Taking the reporting overhead into consideration, a novel frame structure consisting of an initial subframe and M consecutive subframes, is proposed to maximize the achievable throughput of the secondary network. And for each scenario, the overhead-throughput tradeoff is formulated as an optimization problem with respect to the number of reporting SUs. A brute-force approach is then used to resolve such optimization problem. Given the optimal number of reporting SUs, a set of candidate SUs is then selected according to the probability of detection, the probability of false alarm and the probability of reporting error. Numerical results show that an optimal overhead-throughput tradeoff is achieved given the optimal number of reporting SUs. In addition, the probability of false alarm is shown to be the most important factor affecting the performance of achievable throughput within the secondary network because the lower probability of false alarm corresponds to the case that the secondary network can use the channel with a higher chance.     

Scalable and Robust ANN Based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Networks

Cognitive radio network (CRN) supports dynamic spectrum access addressing spectrum scarcity issue experienced by today’s wireless communication network. Sensing is an important task and cooperative spectrum sensing is used for improving detection performance of spectrum. The sensing information from individual secondary users is sent to fusion center to infer a common global decision regarding primary user’s presence. Various fusion schemes for decision making are proposed in the literature but they lack scalability and robustness. We have introduced artificial neural network (ANN) at fusion center thereby achieving significant improvement in detection performance and reduction in false alarm rate as compared to conventional schemes. The proposed ANN scheme is found capable to deal with scalability of CRN with consistent performance. Further, SNR of individual Secondary user is taken into consideration in decision making at fusion center. Moreover the proposed scheme is tested against security attack (malicious users) and inadvertent errors occurring at SUs are found to be robust.     

Cooperative wideband sensing based on cyclostationary features with multiple malicious user elimination

Spectrum sensing is an essential concept in cognitive radio. To overcome the single node sensing issue that arises due to channel impediments, cooperative/multinode sensing is being used. Although cooperation among multiple cognitive users enhances the sensing performance, presence of few malicious cognitive users may severely degrade the efficiency of the system. In this paper, generalized extreme studentized deviate (GESD) and adjusted box-plot (ABP) methods are introduced to increase the sensing reliability of cooperative network by eliminating multiple malicious cognitive users. The performance of the cyclostationary feature detection method is compared with the energy detection method under different channel impediments. The simulation results are carried out with false alarm probability of 0.01 and a detection probability of 0.9. The simulation results reveal that there is a significant improvement in cooperative sensing performance by elimination of multiple malicious user in the network.