The natural acoustic system used by marine mammals and the artificial sonar system used by humans coexist in the underwater cognitive sonar communication networks (CSCN). They share the spectrum when they are in the same waters. The CSCN detects the natural acoustic signal depending on cooperative spectrum sensing of sonar nodes. In order to improve spectrum sensing performance of CSCN, the opt...

The objective of cooperative spectrum sensing is to collaboratively detect the presence of the primary user by the aid of multiple secondary users. It is known that the performance of such a framework substantially depends on the fading assumption. In this paper, we propose an advanced framework for linear cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks over correlated log-normal shado...

Multiple secondary users can cooperate to increase the reliability of spectrum sensing in cognitive radio (CR) networks. However, the total transmission power grows approximately linearly with the number of cooperative secondary users. This study proposes a new approach to optimise the trade-off between sensing reliability and power efficiency in cooperative CR networks over fading channels. Th...

This material is a supplement to the paper “Distributed Consensus-based Weight Design for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing”. Section 1 offers related literature review on cooperative spectrum sensing and consensus algorithms. Section 2 presents related notations and models of the consensus-based graph theory. Section 3 offers further analysis of the proposed spectrum sensing scheme including detect...

Cognitive radio arises as a hot research issue in wireless communications recently, attributed to its capability of enhancing spectral efficiency and catering for the growing demand for bandwidth. As a good embodiment of cognitive radio’s unique feature, i.e. making use of every bit spectral resource, spectrum sensing plays a vital role in the implementation of cognitive radio. To alleviate neg...

Cognitive radios are indispensable to shift paradigm from conventional exclusive spectrum assignment to dynamic spectrum access. They can boost up spectrum utilization significantly, by dynamically accessing unused primary spectrum while bringing no harm to primary users. The envisioned radio calls for fast and accurate spectrum sensing. Researchers are focusing on cooperative spectrum sensing ...

Abstract— This article proposes a new cooperative wideband spectrum-sensing algorithm based on cooperative sub-Nyquist narrow band spectrum sensing in cognitive radio devices (CRD). Within this scenario, to guarantee optimal detection, the spectrum-sensing function must work with a great amount of samples of the signal obtained at rates equal or higher than the Nyquist rate, which generates hig...

We investigate the performance of cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) in a cognitive radio (CR) network, where each of the N numbers of CR nodes uses an improved energy detector (IED) to sense the primary user (PU), and makes a local decision regarding the presence of PU using double thresholds. The local decisions are utilized to attain a global decision at the fusion centre (FC) through hard d...

Recently, both optimal and suboptimal spectrum sensing approaches have attracted extensive attention in wireless communications field. Thanks to opportunistic spectrum access schemes, different cognitive users can cooperatively search for and exploit instantaneous spectrum availability. In this paper, we address the analysis of spectrum sensing in opportunistic spectrum access models and then d...

In cognitive radio (CR), cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) employs a fusion of multiple decisions from various secondary user (SU) nodes at central center (FC) to detect spectral holes not utilized by the primary (PU). The energy detector (ED) is well-established technique (SS). However, major challenge in designing an detector-based SS requirement correct knowledge for distribution decision s...