Soft Combination and Detection for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks
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- 1 November 2007
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- No. 1930529X,p. 3139-3143
- https://doi.org/10.1109/glocom.2007.594
Abstract
In this paper, we consider cooperative spectrum sensing based on energy detection in cognitive radio networks. Soft combination of the observed energy values from different cognitive radio users is investigated. Maximal ratio combination (MRC) is theoretically proved to be nearly optimal in low signal- to-noise ratio (SNR) region, an usual scenario in the context of cognitive radio. Both MRC and equal gain combination (EGC) exhibit significant performance improvement over conventional hard combination. Encouraged by the performance gain of soft combination, we propose a new softened hard combination scheme with two-bit overhead for each user and achieve a good tradeoff between detection performance and complexity. While traditionally energy detection suffers from an SNR wall caused by noise power uncertainty, it is shown in this paper that an SNR wall reduction can be achieved by employing cooperation among independent cognitive radio users.Keywords
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