Distributed Adaptive Cooperative Bandwidth Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive MIMO Radios

To allow secondary and primary concurrent transmissions achieving optimal spectrum utilization in cognitive radio networks (CRNs), this paper proposes an innovative distributed cooperative spectrum sensing methodology using adaptive sensing bandwidth entitled distributed adaptive cooperative bandwidth spectrum sensing (DACB-SS) scheme when multiple secondary users (SUs) use part of the bandwidth to collaboratively perform spectrum sensing throughout the whole frame to detect the primary user (PU)'s reappearance in time. The SU's spectrum efficiency is maximized by jointly optimizing the sensing bandwidth proportion, the number of cooperative SUs, and the detection probability, subject to the constraints on the SUs' interference and the false alarm probability. A gripping slant of DACB-SS regime is provided to maintain overall maximum spectral efficiency. Another contribution of DACB-SS algorithm is the benefit to make great improvement on the sum capacity to obtain better performance of spectrum coexistence. Simulation results illustrate that the proposed analytical model investigates characteristic changes of the spectrum usage affected by the outage probability of PR and the coexisting secondary transmission bandwidth in terms of overall spectral efficiency as well as the outage capacity which can be characterized by the outage probability of SR and the interference from ST to PR in multiuser multiple-input multiple-output broadcast channel (MU-MIMO-BC). Besides, the sum capacity is impacted by channel gains, primary transmit power and secondary transmit power in Gaussian cognitive inference channel (G-CIFC).

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This paper proposes a novel distributed adaptive cooperative bandwidth spectrum sensing (DACB-SS) scheme to achieve optimal spectrum utilization in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) by jointly optimizing sensing bandwidth proportion, the number of cooperative SUs, and detection probability to maximize SU's spectrum efficiency. The DACB-SS algorithm also improves the sum capacity for better performance of spectrum coexistence. Simulation results show the impact of PR outage probability and coexisting secondary transmission bandwidth on spectrum usage characteristics, as well as the sum capacity influenced by channel gains, primary transmit power, and secondary transmit power in different channel models.