Cooperation Spectrum Sensing Using Optimal Joint Detecting

In cognitive radio networks, there are two important probabilities; the first probability is important to primary users called probability of detection as it indicates their protection level from secondary users, and the second probability is important to the secondary users called probability of false alarm which is used for determining their using of unoccupied channel. Cooperation sensing can improve the probabilities of detection and false alarm. A new approach of determine optimal value for these probabilities, is supposed and considered to face multi secondary users through discovering an optimal threshold value for each unique detection curve then jointly find the optimal thresholds. To get the aggregated throughput over transmission, cognitive users' throughput is considered in terms optimal threshold value in order to opportunistically utilize the unused band for transmission. Simulation results proved that it can maximize the aggregated opportunistic throughput subject to constraints on the aggregated interference for primary user as well as individual constraints on secondary users.