• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.295-309
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• 2016

Spectrum sensing is an essential function that enables cognitive radio technology to explore spectral holes and resourcefully access them without any harmful interference to the licenses user. Spectrum sensing done by a single node is highly affected by fading and shadowing. Thus, to overcome this, cooperative spectrum sensing was introduced. Currently, the advancements in multiple antennas have given a new dimension to cognitive radio research. In this paper, we propose a multiple energy detector for cooperative spectrum sensing schemes based on the evidence theory. Also, we propose a reporting mechanism for multiple energy detectors. With our proposed system, we show that a multiple energy detector using a cooperative spectrum sensing scheme based on evidence theory increases the reliability of the system, which ultimately increases the spectrum sensing and reduces the reporting time. Also in simulation results, we show the probability of error for the proposed system. Our simulation results show that our proposed system outperforms the conventional energy detector system.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.221-227
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• 2015

Spectrum sensing plays an essential role in a cognitive radio network, which enables opportunistic access to an underutilized licensed spectrum. In conventional cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS), all cognitive users (CUs) in the network spend the same amount of time on spectrum sensing and waste time in remaining silent when other CUs report their sensing results to the fusion center. This problem is solved by the superposition cooperative spectrum sensing (SPCSS) scheme, where the sensing time of a CU is extended to the reporting time of the other CUs. Subsequently, SPCSS assigns the CUs different sensing times and thus affects both the sensing performance and the throughput of the system. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to determine the optimal sensing time of each CU for SPCSS that maximizes the achieved system throughput. The simulation results prove that the proposed scheme can significantly improve the throughput of the cognitive radio network compared with the conventional CSS.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.5249-5267
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• 2016

Cognitive radio is an efficient technique to improve spectrum efficiency and relieve the pressure of spectrum resources. In this paper, we investigate the spectrum sensing period in cooperative relay cognitive radio networks; analyze the relationship between the available capacity and the signal-to-noise ratio of the received signal of second users, the target probability of detection and the active probability of primary users. Finally, we derive the closed form expression of the optimal spectrum sensing period in terms of maximum throughput. We simulate the probability of false alarm and available capacity of cognitive radio networks and compare optimal spectrum sensing period scheme with fixed sensing period one in these performance. Simulation results show that the optimal sensing period makes the cognitive networks achieve the higher throughput and better spectrum sensing performance than the fixed sensing period does. Cooperative relay cognitive radio networks with optimal spectrum sensing period can achieve the high capacity and steady probability of false alarm in different target probability of detection. It provides a valuable reference for choosing the optimal spectrum sensing period in cooperative relay cognitive radio networks.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.429-436
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 무선인지통신망에서 스펙트럼 센싱을 위한 협업 센싱을 하는 경우에 센싱 시간 및 협업 센싱 단말 수의 최적값들을 결정하는 방식에 대해서 다룬다. 협업 스펙트럼 센싱에서는 전송 중인 CU (Cognitive User) 외에 휴지중인 다른 CU들이 활성화되어 센싱에 참여함으로써 센싱 시간을 줄일 수 있다. 이로 인한 전송 CU의 전송률 이득과 CU들의 센싱으로 인한 에너지 소모간의 관계를 모두 고려하는 혼합 정수 계획법 문제를 풀어서 최적값들을 구할 수 있다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.253-263
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• 2015

최근 다수의 후 순위 사용자(Secondary User)가 각각의 검출 결과를 융합 센터(Fusion Center)에 보고하여 대역 검출의 성능을 향상시키기 위한 협력 대역 검출 기법이 이루어지고 있다. 또한 선 순위 사용자(Primary User)에게 할당된 주파수 대역을 융합 센터가 공유하는 인지 무선(Cognitive Radio)기술이 개발되고 있다. 이 논문에서는 분산 협력 대역 검출 환경에서 후 순위 사용자의 검출 정보가 융합 센터로 보고되는 채널의 오류 확률을 고려한 기존 분산 협력 대역 검출 기법의 성능 저하를 보완하는 새로운 분산 협력 대역 검출 기법을 제안하였다. 또한 분산 협력 대역 검출 기법의 오류 확률을 최소화 하는 검출 문턱값의 최적화 방법을 수식의 유도를 통해 제안하였다. 최적의 검출 문턱값은 분산 협력 대역 검출의 성능을 최대화 하는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.223-228
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• 2013

Cognitive radio has been recently considered a promising technology to improve spectrum utilization by enabling secondary access to licensed bands that are not used by primary users temporarily or spatially. A prerequisite to this secondary access is the lack of interference to the primary system. This requirement makes spectrum sensing a key process for cognitive radio. In this study, we consider amplify and forward (AF)-based cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks where multiple relay nodes are utilized to amplify and forward the primary user signal for better spectrum sensing, and maximum ratio combining is used for fusion detection by a cognitive coordinator. Further, the detection probability and the bit error rate of AF-based cooperative spectrum sensing are analyzed in fading multiple cognitive relay channels. The simulation results show that the AF-based cooperative spectrum sensing scheme outperforms the conventional scheme.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.355-370
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• 2014

Cooperative spectrum sensing has been considered as a promising approach to improve the sensing performance in distributed cognitive radio networks. However, there may exist some selfish secondary users (SUs) who are unwilling to cooperate. The presence of selfish SUs could cause catastrophic damage to the performance of cooperative spectrum sensing. Following the social perspective, we propose a Social Tie-based Incentive Scheme (STIS) to deal with the selfish problem for cooperative spectrum sensing in distributed cognitive radio networks. This scheme inspires SUs to contribute sensing information for the SUs who have social tie but not others, and such willingness varies with the strength of social tie value. The evaluation of each SU's social tie derives from its contribution for others. Finally, simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제63권1호
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• pp.34-39
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• 2014

In cognitive radios, secondary users can use the spectrum exclusively allocated to a primary wireless system if the secondary users detect the spectrum in idle states. Because the secondary users can utilize the idle state of the spectrum, the utilization rate of the spectrum can be improved. The idle states can be detected by using secondary users' sensing schemes. However, the wireless channel environment where secondary users perform the spectrum sensing is not very friendly to secondary users because the signal-to-noise ratio of the received primary signal is very low. Hence, cooperative sensing scheme where more than one secondary user take part in the spectrum sensing is generally used in cognitive radios. In this paper, we investigate the cooperative sensing performance for machine-to-machine communication devices operated by batteries with limited energy. In general, the energy consumed for the spectrum sensing increases as the length of the sensing period and the number of cooperative sensing nodes. Accordingly, even though the total amount of the consumed energy is the same, an energy allocation methodology how to distribute the energy to the sensing period and sensing nodes can achieve the optimum sensing performance, which is numerically analyzed.

• 한국ITS학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국ITS학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.48-52
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• 2010

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.391-395
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• 2011

Cognitive radio (CR) technique is a useful tool for improving spectrum utilization by detecting and using the vacant frequency bands while avoiding interference to the primary user. The sensing performance in a CR network can be improved by allowing some CR users to perform cooperative spectrum sensing. In this paper, we propose a new sensing algorithm that utilizes an adaptive energy threshold for cooperative spectrum sensing in which a changeable energy threshold is adopted by the CR users for improving local sensing performance. Through the proposed scheme, the reliability of global decision can be enhanced mainly due to the improvement in local sensing performance.