Cooperative diversity of spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks

Dongliang Duan, Liuqing Yang, Jose C. Principe

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Abstract

Spectrum sensing is a critical issue in cognitive radio networks. Cooperation among the secondary users is utilized to improve the performance of spectrum sensing. In this paper, we quantify the gain of cooperation in spectrum sensing by introducing the concept of diversity order. With different system performance metrics, we introduce different diversity quantities. We analyze the single-user sensing and the multi-user sensing with soft and hard information fusion strategies using the diversity quantities as our figure of merit. In particular, we discuss the selection of threshold in each sensing scheme with respect to the diversity performance and obtain the quantitative relationship among the diversity performance, threshold, and the number of cooperative users. We also observe and quantify the tradeoff between false alarm and missed detection performance in all spectrum sensing schemes.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2009 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2009 - Proceedings
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event2009 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2009 - Budapest, Hungary
Duration: Apr 5 2009Apr 8 2009

Publication series

NameIEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC
ISSN (Print)1525-3511

Other

Other2009 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2009
Country/TerritoryHungary
CityBudapest
Period4/5/094/8/09

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