Spectrum Sensing Technique for Cognitive Radio Systems with Selection Diversity

In this paper, we consider complementary sensing nodes to increase the spectrum sensing efficiency of cognitive radio (CR) systems. As the CR system has no prior knowledge about the operation of the licensed network, it is difficult to employ efficient diversity techniques such as the selection diversity. In this paper, by jointly designed with a medium access layer protocol, we propose a sensor node selection technique on the channel where the primary user is active. Collaborated with the mode of operation defined for CR nodes, the proposed scheme selects the dedicated sensing node for the channel with the best sensing performance. Numerical results show that the performance of the proposed scheme is almost the same as the cooperative spectrum sensing while our proposed scheme requires only one sensing node for the spectrum sensing.