认知 mesh 网络服务区分的动态频谱接入策略

动态频谱接入策略是实现认知无线电网络高效利用频谱的关键。与传统认知无线电网络不同,认知mesh网络中不同QoS需求的多类型业务共同接入,为适应这一特点,提出服务区分的动态频谱接入策略。策略依据业务的QoS需求确立优先级,针对不同优先级业务采取不同的信道接入方案,实时业务依据最优传输延迟期望选择接入信道集合,在减小传输延迟的同时降低数据传输过程授权用户出现的概率,普通业务选择最优理想传输成功概率的信道,降低信道切换概率。理论与实验结果表明,与传统的认知网络频谱接入策略相比,提出的策略能提供不同业务的服务区分,满足实时业务的低延迟需求,降低数据传输的中断率,同时在授权信道空闲率与网络负载较大时吞吐量性能较优。     

Femtocell网络中基于双门限的两层协作频谱感知技术

在Femtocell和Macrocell构成的两层异构网络中,前人提出运用认知无线电的技术来解决网络中存在的干扰问题,但大多数研究主要集中在频谱资源的管理上,没有提出高效的频谱检测方法。本文结合认知无线电中频谱感知技术提出了基于双门限的两层协作频谱感知,检测出空洞的频谱资源分配给Femtocell用户使用,既能提高频谱资源的利用率,又能有效的抑制Femtocell与Macrocell之间的干扰。文中推导出了Femtocell用户基于双门限的两层频谱感知的检测概率和虚警概率,给出了Femtocell网络中感知信息两比特编码的融合准则和基于双门限的两层协作频谱感知的具体实施方法。仿真结果表明,所提算法能够有效提高Femtocell用户的频谱检测概率,通过对感知信息进行两比特编码,再将编码后的信息发送至融合中心进行融合,能够有效的提高整个系统的检测性能,抗噪声能力强。      

利用压缩测量值的非重构宽带频谱感知

为了解决在认知无线电(CR)宽带系统中快速精确分析数据并实现频谱感知的技术难题,对非重构压缩频谱检测进行了研究。提出了一种利用压缩测量值的非重构宽带频谱感知算法,推导分析了虚警概率和检测概率的封闭表达式。该算法利用离散余弦变换（DCT）矩阵的能量压缩特性观测得到主用户能量压缩信息,并利用新型压缩检测器对压缩信息进行判决。仿真表明,所提算法降低了计算复杂度,提供了比传统的能量检测器和压缩检测器更好的工作特性。     

Simultaneous spectrum sensing,data transmission and Energy harvesting in multi‐channel cognitive sensor Networks with imperfect signal cancellation

In multichannel cognitive sensor networks, the sensor users which have limited energy budgets sense the spectrum to determine the activity of the primary user. If the spectrum is idle, the sensor user can access the licensed spectrum. However, during the spectrum sensing, no data transmits. For improving the network throughput and saving more energy consumption, we propose the simultaneous spectrum sensing and data transmission scheme where the sensor receiver decodes the received signal, and from the remaining signal, the status of the channel (idle/busy) is determined. We also consider that the sensor users are powered by a radio‐frequency (RF) energy harvester. In this case, energy harvesting, data transmission, and spectrum sensing are done simultaneously. On the other hand, we select the proper sensor users for spectrum sensing and energy harvesting. We also allocate the best channels for data transmission simultaneously so that the network throughput maximizes and the constraints on the energy consumption and the detection performance are satisfied for each band. We formulate the problem and model it as a coalition game in which sensors act as game players and decide to make coalitions. Each coalition selects one of the channels to sense and transmit data, while the necessary detection probability and false alarm probability and also the energy consumption constraints are satisfied. The utility function of a coalition is proposed based on the energy consumption, false alarm probability, detection probability, and the network throughput. This paper proposes an efficient algorithm to reach a Nash‐stable coalition structure. It is demonstrated that the proposed method maximizes the network throughput and reduces the energy consumption while it provides sufficient detection quality, in comparison to other existent methods.     

Artificial neural network design for improved spectrum sensing in cognitive radio

Dynamic Spectrum Access/Cognitive Radio systems access the channel in an opportunistic, non-interfering manner with the primary network. These systems utilize spectrum sensing techniques to sense the occupancy of the primary user. In this paper, an artificial neural network based hybrid spectrum sensing technique is proposed, which considers sensing as a binary classification problem to detect whether the primary user is idle or busy. The proposed scheme utilizes energy detection and likelihood ratio test statistic as features to train the neural network. Moreover, we demonstrate the impact of hyperparameter tuning and carry out the detailed study of it, yielding a combination of best-suited hyperparameters. The performance of the proposed sensing scheme is validated on primary signals of various real world radio technologies acquired with an empirical testbed setup. We conclude that the best performing configuration results in an increase of approximately 63% in detection performance compared to classical energy detection and improved energy detection sensing schemes when averaged over all the radio technologies considered in this work.

     

一种低速采样的协同宽带频谱感知方法

频谱感知是通信系统抗干扰和智能化的关键能力.针对认知无线电系统窄带频谱感知技术受制于数模转换器件的发展水平,难以解决认知无线电系统宽带、实时频谱感知的问题,提出一种多节点协作的认知无线电系统宽带频谱感知方法.该方法设计由多个认知节点对目标频段执行次奈奎斯特采样来降低采样速率,采用能量检测方式对采样矢量进行集中式融合判决,实现宽频段范围内干扰信号的谱定位和判断,降低各个感知节点的采样速率,支撑认知网络系统构建高实时、宽频带频谱感知的能力.计算机仿真试验结果表明,所提方法达到90％检测概率时压缩比要求为0.025,具有可靠性与有效性.     

Optimal Energy Harvesting-based Weighed Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Network

In cognitive radio (CR) network, to improve spectrum sensing performance to primary user (PU) and decrease energy wastage of secondary user (SU) in cooperative spectrum sensing, an energy harvesting-based weighed cooperative spectrum sensing is proposed in this paper. The SU harvests the radio frequency (RF) energy of the PU signal and then converts the RF energy into the electric energy to supply the power used for energy detection and cooperation. The time switching model and power splitting model are developed to realize the notion. In the time switching model, the SU performs either spectrum sensing or energy harvesting at any time, while in the power splitting model, the received PU signal is split into two signal streams, one for spectrum sensing and the other one for energy harvesting. A joint optimization problem is formulated to maximize the spectrum access probability of the SU by jointly optimizing sensing time, number of cooperative SUs and splitting factor. The simulation results have shown that compared to the traditional cooperative spectrum sensing, the proposed energy harvesting-based weighed cooperative spectrum sensing can decrease the energy wastage obviously while guaranteeing the maximum spectrum access probability.     

认知无线网络频谱感知与节点协同问题综述

认知无线电是被公认的解决移动无线网络频谱资源短缺和频谱资源动态分配问题的最有效和最有潜力的技术。基于认知无线电技术目前在移动无线网络中的实际应用情况,详细分析了认知无线网络目前所存在的无线频谱资源感知、探测和接入机制以及多用户节点协同等问题,并综述了频谱资源分配算法和认知无线网络容量问题的最新研究进展,最后提出用博弈论来研究解决认知无线网络多用户协同问题中的用户自私行为。     

Maximizing the lifetime of energy‐constrained cooperative spectrum sensing sensor network

Adding the cognitive capability to wireless sensor networks allows the sensors to monitor the spectrum and identify the spectrum holes to operate in different frequencies according to the radio environment which result in better spectrum utilization. Spectrum sensing is a main component in any cognitive radio network. In this paper, we propose a new cooperative sensing scheme based on energy detection for cognitive sensor networks which is constrained by the energy limitation of the wireless sensor elements. The proposed scheme minimizes the sensing energy for individual sensor and carefully selects the suitable participant sensors in each cooperative sensing process. This results in maximizing the lifetime of energy‐constrained wireless sensor networks. The proposed scheme also takes into consideration the constraints on the detection accuracy. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme prolonged the lifetime of the cognitive network, makes efficient usage of available spectrum by secondary users, and satisfy the target detection performance.     

Performance evolution of ED-based spectrum sensing in CR over Nakagami-m/shadowed fading channel with MRC reception

Internet of things contains the hefty number of devices with diverse types of communication interfaces. Therefore, these devices act as a source of interference to the primary users in the absence of appropriate collision detection technique. Spectrum sensing is the important function of cognitive radio and energy detector is the most popular technique used for spectrum sensing. Detection of the availability of unused spectrum for the secondary user becomes difficult when the channel is affected by composite multipath/shadowed fading. In this paper, analytical expressions of average probability of detection and average area under the receiver operating characteristic over Nakagami-m/log-normal with maximum ratio combining diversity are derived using Gaussian-Hermite integration approximation. In addition, an optimized threshold has been incorporated to overcome the problem of spectrum sensing even at low signal-to-noise ratio. To verify the correctness of exact results and derived analytical expressions, Monte Carlo simulations are incorporated.     

Spectrum inpainting: a new framework for spectrum status determination in large cognitive radio networks

In this paper, the problem of spectrum status determination is considered for large cognitive radio (CR) ad hoc networks. Spectrum sensing and spectrum decision are critical for cognitive radio network throughput and hence obtaining accurate knowledge of the spectrum status is vitally important to better spectrum usage decisions. The major challenge of this type of problem lies in the fact that for a network covering a large geographical area, only very limited measurements of spectrum occupancy during spectrum sensing may be obtained by the CR users for a certain location in any given time slot. This is due to both the hardware limitations as well as the tradeoff between spectrum sensing time and data throughput of the CR users. By representing the spectrum sensing results across the network as an image, spectrum status determination is formulated as an image recovery problem. The method of total variation inpainting is applied to solve the problem with low determination error. The proposed method takes advantage of the correlations in multiple dimensions and the numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

认知无线电中双阶段频谱检测算法研究

在认知无线电网络中,为了实现更精确的检测,并避免对授权用户的干扰,一种双阶段频谱检测算法被提出.该算法由粗检测和细检测两种方式组成.粗检测阶段采用应用广泛的能量检测技术.由于能量检测技术的性能在衰落环境中容易受到影响,当粗检测阶段时感知结果判定为信道空闲,在细检测阶段将采用基于一阶周期平稳特征检测算法.对于这种双阶段频谱检测算法,推导分析了错误检测概率和吞吐量的性能指标.仿真结果表明,频谱检测性能显著优于常规的一阶段频谱检测算法.     

一种基于能量检测的协作式频谱感知算法

为提高认知无线电系统中频谱检测的可靠性,提出了一种基于能量检测的协作式频谱感知算法。利用授权用户的状态在相邻感知帧之间变化的概率小这一特性,通过将当前感知帧的能量值与相邻值相结合来判断授权用户状态,这样当授权用户使用授权频段时,所提算法能有效减小采样信号能量值骤减时发生误判的概率。另外给出了所提算法检测概率和虚警概率的闭式表达式。理论分析和仿真结果表明,所提算法比传统的协作式频谱检测算法检测性能好。     

A directly seeking spectrum holes algorithm by compressive sampling

The method of cognitive radio (CR) is a promising solution to the problem of spectrum scarcity. One of the crucial tasks in the CR is the spectrum hole (SH) detection. The energy detection (ED) method is the most dominant spectrum sensing approach owing to its low computational complexity and the ability to identify SHs without requiring a priori knowledge of primary transmission characteristics. But it will be accompanied by some problems such as the high sampling rates, the difficult setting for detection threshold, and the complexity. An improved algorithm with directly seeking SHs from compressive sampling via compressive sensing algorithm is proposed in this paper. The sampling rate is decreased by the process of the compressive sampling, and the computation complexity is reduced for the elimination of the construction stage in the proposed algorithm. Besides, the detection threshold is not needed to be set for the method of relative comparison. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has a similar probability of detection (POD) of SHs to the traditional ED algorithm and the compressive spectrum sensing algorithm with minimum sampling numbers and lower computation complexity on the condition that the signal noise ratio is beyond 0 dB. It means the proposed algorithm obtains the balance between computing complexity and the sampling rate, and the performance of SH detection is maintained at the same time.     

基于循环前缀频域自相关的OFDM信号频谱感知

针对无线通信频谱资源有限并且利用率非常低的问题,研究了认知无线电系统中基于信号典型特征的频谱感知策略,并进行动态频谱检测.提出了一种基于循环前缀频域自相关的频谱感知算法,利用正交频分复用(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing,OFDM)信号的循环前缀具有循环平稳特性,在信号频域进行自相关运算,设定判决门限,完成对信号频谱的检测,同时具备较好的抑制平稳噪声和干扰的能力.在低信噪比或者噪声不确定度大的应用场景下,能够获得比能量检测方法更优、更稳定的频谱感知效果,增强了噪声鲁棒性.在算法中采用双门限检测,进一步减弱了噪声不确定度对检测性能的影响,提高了频谱感知性能.     

基于网络编码的衰落信道频谱感知算法

针对传统认知无线电网络中频谱状态转换频繁和频谱检测时延长的问题,提出基于随机线性网络编码的累积和能量检测频谱感知算法。该算法在主用户信道中引入随机线性网络编码,利用网络编码对频谱的整形作用,使频谱状态转换稀疏,频谱结构更规律化,减小频谱检测时延,提高系统吞吐率。此外,针对传统累积和能量检测算法抗衰落性能差的问题,通过比较该算法在五种衰落信道下的检测时延和吞吐率,研究该算法的抗衰落性能。实验结果表明,在一定的虚警概率下,该算法有效降低了检测时延,提高了吞吐率及抗衰落能力,能够更好地适应复杂的衰落信道环境。     

Cognitive radio CDMA networking with spectrum sensing

In this paper, the performance of cognitive radio (CR) code division multiple access (CDMA) systems is analyzed. More precisely, CR users belong to a cognitive radio network (CRN), which coexists with a primary radio network (PRN). Both CRN and PRN are CDMA‐based, with colocated base stations. Soft hand off and power control are considered in both the CRN and the PRN. Upon the development of an accurate simulator for a representative three‐cell cellular scenario, we evaluate the performance of the proposed CR system in terms of outage probability, blocking probability and average data rate of secondary users. Three different spectrum sensing techniques are. Two new schemes, based on interference limit, are proposed and compared with an existing adaptive spectrum sensing scheme. Spectrum activity measurements and spectrum sharing decisions have been considered for evaluating the performance of the three schemes. The paper proposes a new CR‐CDMA networking model and a simulation testbed for evaluating performances of secondary users and primary users in terms of outage, blocking, BER and average data rate in the presence of soft hand‐off and power control. For comparison purposes, the analysis in the absence of spectrum sensing is also investigated.Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于非参量累积和的合作频谱感知

针对认知无线电网络中频谱感知的检测时延降低问题,提出了基于非参量累积和的合作频谱感知算法。本地认知用户预处理频谱观测数据,获得观测数据相对于信念值的正向漂移和负向漂移。为了缩短检测延迟,认知用户只将数据的正向漂移同步传输至融合中心。融合中心融合正向漂移得到判决信息,采用非参量累积和算法依时间序列顺序累加判决信息,判断主用户是否正在使用授权频段。为了解决不传输负向漂移引起的虚警问题,改进算法提出融合中心可以保留首次判决,经过等待时间间隔后再作出最终判决。相对于传统的软融合算法,改进融合规则的合作频谱感知算法具有较低的检测延迟。     

Evaluation of signalling loads in a cognitive network management architecture

Future networks will need to accommodate a significantly augmented user demand, mainly stemming from the wireless and mobile domains. In general, the emerging radio landscape will comprise multiple, collaborating radio access networks (RANs) able to operate a plethora of diverse radio access technologies (RATs), variant types of mobile terminals (MTs), with the ability to choose among various supported RANs/RATs and, in addition, both devices and networks with dynamic spectrum access capabilities that allow the sharing and/or optimization of spectrum usage among different systems. The above will stress network operators for developing mechanisms to confront the challenges and to leverage the opportunities posed by such a versatile radio environment. In particular, the situation calls for adaptive and flexible management paradigms that are able to dynamically manage network elements and terminals, thus ensuring the great availability and efficient usage of spectrum and other radio resources. Framed within the above, this paper considers a cognitive network management architecture, which is destined for optimized management of future wireless networks operating in versatile radio environments, and presents a performance evaluation methodology, which was set up for measuring the signalling loads that the operation of the architecture will bring to the managed network. The methodology is analytically described, and useful results with respect to the signalling load produced for management signalling purposes in an indicative scenario are presented and analysed. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.