Review of Robust Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Techniques for Cognitive Radio Networks

Cognitive radio networks sense spectrum occupancy and manage themselves to operate in unused bands without disturbing licensed users. The detection capability of a radio system can be enhanced if the sensing process is performed jointly by a group of nodes so that the effects of wireless fading and shadowing can be minimized. However, taking a collaborative approach poses new security threats to the system as nodes can report false sensing data to reach a wrong decision. This paper makes a review of secure cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks. The main objective of these protocols is to provide an accurate resolution about the availability of some spectrum channels, ensuring the contribution from incapable users as well as malicious ones is discarded. Issues, advantages and disadvantages of such protocols are investigated and summarized.     

认知无线电网络的一种协作频谱感知方案

认知无线电技术能够让非授权用户利用已经分配给授权用户的频段.为了不对首要用户的工作造成干扰,认知用户需要对频谱进行不间断的监测来判断首要用户是否存在.因此,频谱的感知是认知无线电技术的关键.协作频谱感知能够充分的利用网络资源,提高网络中的认知用户的检测概率.文中笔者简单地介绍了一种协作频谱感知的方案.仿真结果表明,通过该方法能够提高网络中认知用户的检测概率,提高网络的检测灵敏度.     

认知无线电的合作频谱检测分析

认知用户需要持续快速地检测主用户的出现,对基于认知无线电的合作频谱检测机制进行了分析。在理想的两用户网络中,认知用户采用合作机制可以提高系统的平均侦测时间。在多认知用户网络中,参与合作的用户越多,单个认知用户对主用户的侦测概率越高。对于多用户网络,还考虑了整体的实现。     

Fault-Tolerant Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Scheme for Cognitive Radio Networks

In order to solve the uncertainty resulting from shadowing effect and resist the attack from malicious cognitive radio (CR) users, we propose a fault-tolerant cooperative spectrum sensing scheme for CR networks, where an energy detection-based local spectrum sensing is performed at each CR user, a coefficient is used to weight each CR user’s sensing result, a linear weighted fusion process is performed at the fusion center (FC) to combine received sensing results. For a fault-tolerant cooperative spectrum sensing scheme, the most important issue is to distinguish whether the CR user is reliable or not. In this paper, a reputation-based cooperative mechanism is presented to alleviate the influence of the unreliable sensing results from CR users suffering shadowing and the false sensing data from malicious CR users on the detection result at the FC. In proposed fault-tolerant cooperative scheme, each cooperative CR user has a reputation degree which is initialized and adjusted by the FC and used to weight the sensing result from the corresponding user in the fusion process at the FC. And then, two reputation degree adjusting methods are presented to manage the reputation degree of each CR user. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can not only weaken the harmful influence caused by malicious CR users, but also alleviate the corrupted detection problem resulting from destructive channel condition between the primary transmitter and the CR user. Moreover, the detection performance of the fault-tolerant cooperative scheme, which has a feasible computational complexity and needs no instantaneous SNRs, is close to that of the optimal scheme.     

A Robust Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Scheme in Cognitive Radio Systems

Performance of cluster-based cooperative spectrum sensing is more greatly improved than that of the traditional cooperative spectrum sensing.However,the style of clusters is not pointed out on traditional cluster-based method.In view of all the fading in the cooperative spectrum sensing,space diversity,and selective diversity,a robust cooperative spectrum sensing scheme based on clusters is proposed.Simulation results show that the detection performance of this new scheme is more close to that of the ideal cluster-based cooperative spectrum sensing scheme,and the excellent performance with higher reliability is gained relative to the actual cluster-based cooperative spectrum sensing scheme.Finally,the number of users in a cluster of the proposed scheme is discussed.The two users in a cluster are not the optimal solution to the overall implementation of cognitive radio.     

认知无线电网络中基于最大似然准则的协同频谱检测算法研究

提出一种集中式频谱协同检测算法。各认知节点采用能量检测算法,然后使用最大似然准则进行本地判决,且把似然比作为本地判决可靠性的度量;中心节点基于可信度对接收到的认知节点本地检测数据进行数据融合。仿真结果显示,文中提出的认知节点协同频谱检测方案能够减少误检概率。特别是当信道处于深衰落时,少量节点参与协同就能获得较好的检测性能。     

Soft Combination Schemes for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks

This paper investigates linear soft combination schemes for cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks. We propose two weight-setting strategies under different basic optimality criteria to improve the overall sensing performance in the network. The corresponding optimal weights are derived, which are determined by the noise power levels and the received primary user signal energies of multiple cooperative secondary users in the network. However, to obtain the instantaneous measurement of these noise power levels and primary user signal energies with high accuracy is extremely challenging. It can even be infeasible in practical implementations under a low signal-to-noise ratio regime. We therefore propose reference data matrices to scavenge the indispensable information of primary user signal energies and noise power levels for setting the proposed combining weights adaptively by keeping records of the most recent spectrum observations. Analyses and simulation results demonstrate that the proposed linear soft combination schemes outperform the conventional maximal ratio combination and equal gain combination schemes and yield significant performance improvements in spectrum sensing.     

Cooperative Spectrum Sensing with Adaptive Node Selection for Cognitive Radio Networks

In cooperative spectrum sensing, secondary users can cooperate based on their local sensing observations so as to detect primary signals in a more reliable manner. However, because of the low strength of received primary signals, observations from some secondary users may contribute little to global decisions at the fusion center. To reduce energy consumption and sensing overhead, cooperation is recommended only with a subset of nodes receiving high-strength primary signals. This paper proposes a selection probability based cooperative spectrum sensing scheme that exploits historical observations to exclude nodes receiving low-strength primary signals. The selection probability is maintained based on local sensing information and global decisions. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can exploit location advantages and shows almost the same detection performance as cooperative spectrum sensing with accurate node selection.     

A Novel Evolutionary-Based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Mechanism for Cognitive Radio Networks

Cognitive radio (CR) is considered as a feasible intelligent technology for 4G wireless networks or self-organization networks and envisioned as a promising paradigm of exploiting intelligence for enhancing efficiency of underutilized spectrum bands. In CR, one of the main concerns is to reliably sense the presence of primary users, to attain protection against harmful interference caused by the potential spectrum access of secondary users (SUs). In this paper, evolutionary algorithms, namely, genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) are investigated. An imperialistic competitive algorithm (ICA) is proposed to minimize error detection at the common soft data fusion (SDF) center for structurally centralized cognitive radio network (CRN). By using these techniques, evolutionary operations are invoked to optimize the weighting coefficients applied on the sensing measurement components received from multiple cooperative SUs. The proposed method is compared with other evolutionary algorithms, as well as other conventional deterministic, such as maximal ratio combining- (MRC-), modified deflection coefficient- (MDC-), normal deflection coefficient- (NDC-) based SDF schemes and OR-rule HDF based. MATLAB simulations confirm the superiority of the ICA-based scheme over the PSO-, GA-based and other conventional schemes in terms of detection performance. In addition, the ICA-based scheme also shows promising convergence and time running performance as compared to other iterative-based schemes. This makes ICA an adequate solution to meet real-time requirements.     

认知无线电中基于加权硬判决的协作频谱感知算法

Weighted one bit hard combination for cooperative spectrum sensing is proposed in this paper. Two thresholds are adopted to divide the possible energy value into three weighted regions.If the energy value falls into the corresponding region, it will be judged as “1”, no information or “0”. When the probability of false alarm is constrained to be constant, the objective is to maximize the probability of detection. The optimization problem is simplified by separating the weight of the middle region into several intervals. Simulation results show that the sensing performance of the proposed scheme is much better than that of the traditional one bit hard combination scheme and almost the same as that of the equal gain combination (EGC) scheme. Moreover, compared with the traditional one bit hard combination, fewer average sensing bits are required to transmit to the data fusion center with the proposed method.     

认知无线电网络中合作频谱感知机制的优化

为了提高检测效率和频谱利用率,该文对认知无线电中合作频谱感知的感知机制进行了优化。针对信道监测和信道搜索两个不同的感知场景,分别给出了检测周期、检测时间和搜索时间的选取和优化方法,并提出了新的信道搜索方式。研究分析和仿真结果可以看出,合作频谱感知和主动感知方式的引入可以提高检测性能和传输速率,对感知机制和策略的选取和优化有效地提高系统吞吐量,降低感知时延和开销,这样可以提高认知无线电网络的性能和灵敏性,在保证授权用户不被干扰的同时最大化空闲频谱的接入机会。     

Reputation-Based Hierarchically Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Scheme in Cognitive Radio Networks

Cooperative spectrum sensing in cog- nitive radio is investigated to improve the det- ection performance of Primary User （PU）. Meanwhile, cluster-based hierarchical coop- eration is introduced for reducing the overhead as well as maintaining a certain level of sens- ing performance. However, in existing hierar- chically cooperative spectrum sensing algo- rithms, the robustness problem of the system is seldom considered. In this paper, we pro- pose a reputation-based hierarchically coop- erative spectrum sensing scheme in Cognitive Radio Networks （CRNs）. Before spectrum sensing, clusters are grouped based on the location correlation coefficients of Secondary Users （SUs）. In the proposed scheme, there are two levels of cooperation, the first one is performed within a cluster and the second one is carried out among clusters. With the reputa- tion mechanism and modified MAJORITY rule in the second level cooperation, the pro- posed scheme can not only relieve the influ- ence of the shadowing, but also eliminate the impact of the PU emulation attack on a rela- tively large scale. Simulation results show that, in the scenarios with deep-shadowing or mul- tiple attacked SUs, our proposed scheme ach- ieves a better tradeoff between the system robustness and the energy saving compared with those conventionally cooperative sensing schemes.     

Ad Hoc认知网络中基于梯度算法的协作压缩频谱感知方法

ad hoc认知网络(CRAHNs)比起传统ad hoc网络有很多优势,如分布式多跳结构及动态变化的网络拓扑等。频谱感知是认知无线电技术的基础,采用压缩感知方法以低于奈奎斯特采样率的速率来获得较好的重构信号,同时可减轻数字处理设备的压力。本文使用多跳模型,每个认知用户感知的频谱不仅包括主用户的主频谱,也包括认知用户自身收到其他认知用户干扰的更新频谱。由于具有动态特性的ad hoc网络缺少融合中心,所以本文中提出一种基于梯度的分布式协作感知算法。该算法基于能量检测,具有可靠的感知性能和较少的能量消耗,并能快速收敛。仿真实验验证了算法的有效性。      

Cooperative Spectrum Sensing with Adaptive Double-Threshold Based Energy Detector in Cognitive Radio Networks

Spectrum sensing is one of the key functionalities in the implementation of cognitive radio. It is used to sense the unused spectrum in an opportunistic manner. In this paper, we propose an energy detector with adaptive double-threshold for spectrum sensing, to optimize the detection performance at a fixed probability of false alarm $(\text{ P }_\mathrm{f})$ i.e. 0.1, which also overcomes sensing failure problem. In the present work, the detection threshold is made adaptive to the fluctuation of the received signal power in each local detector of cognitive radio (CR) user. Simulation results show that proposed scheme optimizes better detection performance and outperforms both conventional energy detector and cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) method by 12.8 and 3.3 % at $-$ 8 dB signal to noise ratio (SNR), respectively. While utilizing CSS with proposed adaptive double-threshold scheme, where each CR user use a double threshold detectors for local detection and send detection decisions to fusion center (FC) to give the final decision based on hard decision rule. It is further found that CSS with adaptive double-threshold improves detection performance around 26.8 and 7.6 % as compare to CSS with single threshold and Hierarchical with quantization method at $-$ 10 dB SNR, respectively, under the case when a small number of sensing nodes are used in spectrum sensing.     

Spectrum Sensing Framework for Cognitive Radio Networks

Spectrum sensing feature of cognitive radio devices represents a cornerstone characteristic facilitating real-time and accurate spectrum occupancy measurements in cognitive radio networks. It practically enables the cognitive radio devices to detect vacant spectrum holes and use them for their communication purposes. There are numerous spectrum sensing methods proposed in the literature ranging from local based ones to cooperative strategies among several devices increasing the confidence level of the detected spectrum. This paper gives a general spectrum sensing framework for cognitive radio networks, classifies and explores different spectrum sensing techniques and approaches and shows practical examples, from authors’ own experience, of realized spectrum sensing engines and strategies along with some obtained results.     

基于SNR比较的认知无线电协作频谱检测

协作频谱检测是认知无线电中的一项关键技术,其检测性能取决于感知节点的本地频谱检测结果的可靠性,而目前已有的方案中对此却很少考虑.对此,认为不同的认知节点信噪比(SNR)导致了各节点本地检测结果的可靠性不同,故在此基础上提出了一种基于融合中心进行SNR比较的认知无线电协作频谱检测算法.在该算法中各认知节点将本地的判决结果和估计的SNR同时发送到融合中心,然后在融合中心对SNR进行比较,按照文中设计的规则来选取有较好SNR的认知节点参与判决融合.数值分析和计算机仿真表明,该方法能有效提高检测概率,并减少参与判决融合的节点数量.     

Optimization of Time-Domain Combining Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks

In cognitive radio networks, the secondary users take chances to access the spectrum without causing interference to the primary users so that the spectrum access is dynamic and somewhat opportunistic. Therefore, spectrum sensing is of significant importance. In this paper, we propose a novel time-domain combining cooperative spectrum sensing framework, in which the time consumed by reporting for one secondary user is also utilized for other secondary users’ sensing. We focus on the optimal sensing settings of the proposed sensing scheme to maximize the secondary users’ throughput and minimize the average sensing error probability under the constraint that the primary users are sufficiently protected. Some simple algorithms are also derived to calculate the optimal solutions. Simulation results show that fundamental improvement of the achievable throughput and sensing performance can be obtained by optimal sensing settings. In addition, our proposed scheme outperforms the general frame structure on either achievable throughput or the performance of average sensing error probability.     

认知无线网络中的智能协作频谱感知机制研究

作为智能体,认知无线电应具有智能学习和智能判决的能力。为充分发掘认知用户的智能体特性,本文提出一种基于支持向量机和模糊积分的智能协作频谱感知机制。该机制将协作频谱感知模型转化成基于模糊积分的多分类器融合模型,其中每个认知用户均被看作一个独立的支持向量机分类器,单个感知周期内得到的采样数据作为分类器的输入,分类器的概率输出将被发送至融合中心,融合中心采用模糊积分算法将各分类器得到的结果进行融合并判决。该机制充分挖掘了认知用户在频谱感知阶段的“智能学习”能力和信息融合阶段的“智能判决”能力,仿真结果进一步表明,与单一的分类模型相比,本文提出的智能协作频谱感知机制具有更高的检测概率和更低的虚警概率。      

Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Techniques in Cognitive Radio

Cognitive radio has become an effective theory to solve the inefficiency of the spectrum usage. One of the main requirements of cognitive radio systems is the ability to reliably detect the spectrum hole. Previous works on the problem of detection for cognitive radio have suggested the necessity of user cooperation to enable the detection at the low signal-to-noise ratios experienced in practical situations. This paper introduces energy sensing and the cooperative sensing techniques: AND model, OR model, counting model, double threshold model, likelihood ratio model, linear cooperation model and DWCS model. It is proved that significant cooperative gain can be achieved by the proposed models in reducing interference and improving spectrum usage.     

协作频谱感知在认知网络中的应用

认知无线电能够灵敏感知周围环境的变化,通过频谱感知功能发现频谱空洞,使得认知无线电能够与周围通信环境相适应。在认知无线电网络中,认知用户（次用户）必须连续地监控频谱,检测主用户是否存在。如果主用户存在,次用户必须尽快地退出该频段,从而不影响主用户。在文中采用一种协作机制,即两用户进行协作频谱感知,从而提高主用户的检测率,减少了检测时间,并且得到捷变增益。我们用Matlab给出仿真结果。