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Abstract: In order to utilize the spectrum efficiently, the role of spectrum sensing is essential in cognitive
radio networks. The transmitter detection based techniques, energy detection, cyclostationary feature
detection, and matched filter detections are most commonly used for the spectrum sensing. However,
detection performance in practice is often compromised with multipath fading, shadowing and receiver
uncertainty issues. To mitigate the impact of these issues, cooperative spectrum sensing has been shown to
be an effective method to improve the detection performance by exploiting spatial diversity. The main idea
of cooperative sensing is to enhance the sensing performance by exploiting the spatial diversity in the
observations of spatially located CR users. By cooperation, CR users could share their sensing information
for making a combined decision more accurate than the individual decisions. Thus the Cooperative sensing
can formulate excellent use of network assets and make the network smooth.
Keywords: Cognitive radio, radio spectrum, spectrum sensing, cooperative sensing, detection probability.
1. INTRODUCTION
In CR network, each CR user in the primitive sense is to
detect licensed (primary) users if they are present and
also identify if they are absent. This is achieved by a
process called spectrum sensing. The objective of
spectrum sensing are twofold i.e., CR users should not
cause interference to PUs and CR users should efficiently
identify and exploit spectrum holes for required
throughputs and quality of services. Thus the detection
performance can be primarily determined on the basis of
two metrics i.e., probability of false alarm, which denotes Figure 1: Receiver uncertainty and multipath fading
the probability of a CR user declaring that a PU is present
when the spectrum is actually free, and probability of 2. SPECTRUM SENSING CHALLENGES
detection, which denotes the probability of a CR user
Before the detail discussion of the spectrum sensing
declaring that a PU is present when the spectrum is
indeed occupied by the PU. Since a miss in the detection techniques, some of the challenges associated with
spectrum sensing are mentioned.
will cause the interference with the PU and a false alarm
will reduce the spectral efficiency, it is usually required
for optimal detection performance that the probability of Hardware requirements
detection is maximized subject to the constraint of the In cognitive radio networks [2] analogue to digital
probability of false alarm. In practice, several factors converter with high speed processors, high resolution and
such as multipath fading, shadowing and, consequently, with dynamic range are required for spectrum sensing.
the hidden terminal problem may affect the detectors Therefore, terminals are essential for processing
performance. These factors could be, however, mitigated transmission for any opportunity over a much wide band.
if the CR users shared their sensing results with the other Hence in order to identify and spectrum opportunity the
CRs. This mechanism is called cooperative spectrum CR should be in a position to capture and analysed a
sensing [1]. This scenario can be illustrated as below larger band. Radio frequency (RF) components are
figure. imposed on additional requirements by larger operating
Due to this multipath fading and shadowing the signal to bandwidth such as antennas and power amplifiers.
noise ratio (SNR) of the received primary signal can be
quite small and detection task may very difficult. Since Hidden primary user problem
the receiver sensitivity indicates that the capability of This hidden primary user problem is like the hidden node
detecting weak signal. dilemma in Carrier Sense Multiple Accessing (CSMA)
[3]. Many factors like shadowing or severe multipath
fading which is observed by secondary user during the
Security
The cognitive radio air interface can be modified by a
malicious user to mimic a primary user. Hence primary
Figure 2: Hidden primary user problem in CR System [3].
users can be misleading during the spectrum sensing
Figure above illustrates the hidden node problem while process. Such a behaviour or attack is called primary user
the operating ranges for the primary user (PU) and for the emulation (PUE) attack. The transmitter position is used
cognitive radio device are shown by dashed lines. to identify an attacker in [8]. A challenging problem is to
develop valuable countermeasure when an attack is
Detecting spread spectrum primary users identified. In order to prevent secondary users masked as
primary users, public key encryption based primary user
A DSSS device resembles the FHSS devices but they recognition is proposed in [9]. An encrypted value which
utilize a single band in order to spread their energy. is generated using a private key is required to transmit
Primary users (PUs) which use spread spectrum with the transmission of legitimate primary users.
signalling are hard to identify as the power of the PUs is
dispersed over a broad frequency range, while the real 3. ELEMENTS OF COOPERATIVE SPECTRUM
information bandwidth is much narrower [4]. A partial
solution of this problem is that if I know the hopping
SENSING
pattern and method of perfect synchronization, but it is The conventional cooperative sensing is generally
possible but not easy to develop such an algorithm considered as a three-step process i.e., local sensing,
through which estimation in code dimension is possible. reporting, and data fusion. The overall elements used for
cooperative sensing as follows.
Sensing duration and frequency
As the CR operates in the bands of primary users, these
bands can be claimed by primary users at any time so in
order to avoid interference to and for PU, the CR should
be so sensible that it could identify the presence of the
PU and leave the band immediately. Hence within certain
duration, the CR should identify the presence of the PU.
Although these conditions put some complexity and
challenge for the design of CR, the sensing frequency is a
key parameter which should be chosen carefully. Sensing
frequency requirements can be relaxed if the status of the
PU is going to change slowly. For example in the case of
TV channel detection, in a geographical area presence of
a TV channel does not change frequency unless an Fig3: Element of cooperative sensing [1]
existing channel goes off or a new channel starts
broadcasting. Sensing period for IEEE 802.22 draft Cooperation models
standard is 30 seconds. Except sensing frequency, other
I considered the most popular parallel fusion network
timing related parameters like channel move time and
models and recently developed game theoretical models.
channel detection time etc, are also defined in the
For this paper preferred primarily fusion model only.
standard [5].
8. ED WITH COOPERATIVE M
ETHOD
Step 1: Numbers of signal are received from two or more Figure 12: Energy detection simulation result
users. Each received signal is sampled with certain For simulation purpose, the graph is plotted in terms of
sampling frequency. probability of false alarm ( ) and probability of
= h *s + where i is the number of users, detection ( ). The detection performance can be mainly
determined on the basis of these two things, i.e.; the
i=0, 1, 2, 3. probability of false alarm which denotes the probability
Step 2: Estimated energy of each received signal is of CR users declaring that a PU is present when the
calculated with noise variance . spectrum is actually free. And another one is probability
of detection, which denotes the probability of CR users
i = E | declaring that a primary user is present when the
Step 3: Integrated output signal of each user is compared spectrum is indeed occupied by primary user. Since a
with already defined threshold value. miss in the detection will cause the interference with the
primary user and the false alarm will reduce the spectral
efficiency. Thus it is usually required for optimal
Step 4: Each user sends estimated energy to fusion centre detection performance that the probability of detection is
and compared with threshold value maximized subject to the constraint of the probability of
false alarm.
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