Spectrum Sensing Under Illegal Spectrum Access Behaviors in Multiple Authorized Users Scenario

In this paper, we detect illegal spectrum access behaviors in the dynamic spectrum sharing of the cognitive wireless networks, in which multiple authorized users (AUs) work in the same channel. First, we detect whether there are users occupy the channel, and if the channel is occupied, then recognize whether there is the illegal user (IU) and infer the number of AUs roughly. In the light of the thorny challenge that legal spectrum utilization behaviors and illegal spectrum access behaviors coexist probabilistically, the spectrum sensing problem is formulated as a mathematical model of ternary hypothesis test. Moreover, when multiple AUs are working at the same time, it is extremely difficult to detect IU. To tackle the problem, taking into account the various potential combinations of AUs and IU, we exploit a two-step detector and derive related detection schemes based on the generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT), the Rao test, and the Wald test following the generalized multi-hypothesis Neyman-Pearson (GMNP) criterion respectively. Additionally, we design a cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) scheme on the basis of the global GMNP criteria, in which the distributed detection framework composed of K sensing nodes and a fusion center (FC). Finally, to verify the performance of the proposed detection scheme in a variety of parameter configurations, we provide comprehensive simulations and find that there will be at most (2(N) - 1) detection valleys when N AUs work at the same time. Compared with single-sensing node detection, the CSS scheme can significantly improve the detection performance of the proposed detection schemes, especially in the upper bound and valley of the detection performance.

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This paper discusses how to detect illegal spectrum access behaviors in dynamic spectrum sharing, proposes a two-step detector and cooperative spectrum sensing scheme, and conducts performance simulations of the proposed detection schemes.