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Journal of applied research and technology
On-line version ISSN 2448-6736Print version ISSN 1665-6423
Abstract
LEE, Ying Loong; SAAD, Wasan Kadhim; EL-SALEH, Ayman Abd and ISMAIL, Mahamod. Improved Detection Performance of Cognitive Radio Networks in AWGN and Rayleigh Fading Environments. J. appl. res. technol [online]. 2013, vol.11, n.3, pp.437-446. ISSN 2448-6736.
Cognitive radios (CRs) have been recently emerging as prime candidates to enhance spectral efficiency by exploiting spectrum-aware systems which can reliably monitor licensed users' activities. CR users monitor such activities by performing spectrum sensing to detect potential white spaces. However, this process of local sensing might be a challenging task in fading environments. The inefficiency of spectrum sensing might cause interference to licensees if they are miss-detected by CR users. Thus, cooperative spectrum sensing is proposed as a means to combat fading and improve the detection performance. However, the detection performance does not improve by such cooperation when low-SNR environment is considered. In this paper, cooperative spectrum sensing with PSO-based threshold adaptation is presented to address the aforementioned problem. Simulation results show that the detection performance with PSO-based adaptive detection threshold is improved, particularly, in low-SNR environment.
Keywords : cognitive radio; cooperative spectrum sensing; dynamic threshold adaptation; particle swarm optimization.