This article aims to analyze a cooperative spectrum sensing scheme using a centralized approach with unreliable reporting channel. The spectrum sensing is applied to a cognitive radio system, where each cognitive radio performs a simple energy detection and send the decision to a fusion center through a reporting channel. When the decisions are available at the fusion center, a n-out-of-K rule ...

Wideband spectrum sensing is becoming increasingly important to cognitive radio (CR) systems for exploiting spectral opportunities. This paper introduces a novel multi-rate sub-Nyquist spectrum sensing (MS) system that implements cooperative wideband spectrum sensing in a CR network. MS can detect the wideband spectrum using partial measurements without reconstructing the full frequency spectru...

This paper proposes a censored and ordered sequential collaborative spectrum sensing scheme for cognitive radio ad hoc network (CRAHN). The scheme uses the ordered of the sensing data reliability for enabling the Dempster Shafer theory of evidence sequential combination. A preceding censored process removes the nodes having insignificant sensing data to the broadcasting sensing result process. ...

Energy efficacious-cooperative spectrum sensing (EE-CSS) protocol based on Trust and Reputation Management (TRM) unit is proposed. This protocol reduces the number of sensing reports exchanged between secondary users and its base station. Trust and Reputation Management unit was proposed to alleviate the malicious behaviour in Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) and to ensure there is no link disconn...

This work presents a method for real-time detection of secondary users at the cognitive wireless technologies base stations. Cognitive radios may hide themselves in between the primary users to avoid being charged for spectrum usage. To deal with such scenarios, a cyclostationary Fast Fourier Transform accumulation method (FAM) has been used to develop a new strategy for recognising channel use...

We propose a novel cluster based cooperative spectrum sensing algorithm to save the wastage of energy, in which clusters are formed using fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering and a cluster head (CH) is selected based on a sensor's location within each cluster, its location with respect to fusion center (FC), its signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and its residual energy. The sensing information of a single ...

In modern wireless communications the spectrum is allocated to fixed licensed users and on the other side the number of wireless devices are increasing rapidly, that has lead to spectrum crunch. As the spectrum is precious it has to be utilized efficiently. The solution to mitigate this problem is Spectrum Sharing. One of the innovative approach to recognize and access the spectrum holes presen...

Radio spectrum is a very scarce and important resource for wireless communication systems. However, a recent study conducted by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) found that most of the currently allocated radio spectrum is not efficiently utilized by the licensed primary users. Granting opportunistic access of the spectrum to unlicensed secondary users has been suggested as a possible way...