In cognitive radio (CR) networks, the secondary users (SUs) sense the spectrum licensed to the primary users (PUs) to identify and possibly transmit over temporarily unoccupied channels. Cooperative sensing was proposed to improve the sensing accuracy, but in heterogeneous scenarios SUs do not contribute equally to the cooperative sensing result because they experience different received PU sig...

This study evaluates the performance of the energy detection based spectrum sensing technique in noisy and fading environments. Both single user detection and cooperative detection situations were investigated. Closed form solutions for the probabilities of detection and false alarm were derived. Analytical results were verified by numerical computations using Monte Carlo method in MATLAB. The ...

In the recent years, the Cognitive Radio technology imposed itself as a good solution to enhance the utilization of unused spectrum and globalized the radio environment for different band users that utilize or require different techniques for transmission. In this paper, the energy detection spectrum sensing technique that is used to detect the presence of unknown deterministic signal is studie...

Cognitive radio technology (CR), as a key enabling functionality for the next generation (xG) mobile communication, can remarkably improve the performance of a wireless communication system by being aware of the changes of its surrounding and dynamically modifying its operating parameters to adapt such changes. Recently, the security issues of cognitive radio (CR) networks have drawn more and m...

In this paper, we address the problem of spectrum sensing in the presence of nonGaussian noise for cognitive radio networks. A novel Rao test based detector, which does not require any a priori knowledge about the primary user (PU) signal and channels, is proposed for the detection of a primary user in non-Gaussian noises that are molded by the generalized Gaussian distribution (GGD). The stati...

The increasing interest for wireless communication services and scarcity of radio spectrum resources have created the need for a more flexible and efficient usage of the radio frequency bands. Cognitive Radio (CR) emerges as an important trend for a solution to this problem. Spectrum sensing is a crucial function in a CR system. Cooperative spectrum sensing can overcome fading and shadowing eff...