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On the location-aware cooperative spectrum sensing in urban environment

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>08/2016
<mark>Journal</mark>Jordanian Journal of Computers and Information Technology
Issue number2
Volume2
Number of pages18
Pages (from-to)119-136
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Spectrum sensing is a key enabling technology for cognitive radio networks (CRNs). The main objective of spectrum sensing is to provide more spectrum access opportunities to cognitive radio users without interfering with the operations of the licensed network. Spectrum sensing decisions can lead to erroneous sensing with low performance due to fading, shadowing and other interferences caused by either terrain inconsistency or dense urban structure. In order to improve spectrum sensing decisions, in this paper a cooperative spectrum sensing scheme is proposed. The propagation conditions such as the variance and intensity of terrain and urban structure between two points with respect to signal propagation are taken into consideration. We have also derived the optimum fusion rule which accounts for location reliability of secondary users (SUs). The analytical results show that the proposed scheme slightly outperforms the conventional cooperative spectrum sensing approaches