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http://dx.doi.org/10.7840/KICS.2011.36A.5.450

Idle Channel Search Scheme for Cognitive Radio Systems Based on Probability Estimation of Channel Idleness  

Son, Min-Sung (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부)
Shin, Oh-Soon (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.36, no.5A, 2011 , pp. 450-456 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, idle channel search schemes based on spectrum sensing are proposed for cognitive radio systems with multiple channels. Specifically, we propose a scheme for determining the order of sensing for multiple channels, for which the probability of each channel being idle is estimated every search interval. By performing sensing in the descending order of the probabilities, the time required for searching idle channels is expected to decrease. In addition, we combine the proposed scheme with a user grouping scheme to further improve the sensing performance. Simulation results show that the user grouping reduces the search time, although it degrades the reliability of detection. The proposed search scheme based on probability estimation of channel idleness is found to reduce the search time significantly as compared to the conventional random search scheme. We apply both the proposed search scheme and user grouping scheme to a cognitive radio system to validate the overall performance.
Keywords
Cognitive Radio; Spectrum Sensing; Cooperative Spectrum Sensing; Idle Channel Search; Multiple Channels;
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