Optimizing Spectrum Sensing Time With Adaptive Sensing Interval for Energy-Efficient CRSNs

The cognitive radio (CR) technology allows secondary users (SUs) to occupy the licensed bands opportunistically without causing interferences to primary users (PUs). SUs perform spectrum sensing to detect whether PUs are busy or idle. Therefore, spectrum sensing directly affects the performance of the PU protection and the secondary throughput. The sensing time is a critical parameter for spectrum sensing performance, and the optimum sensing time is a tradeoff between the spectrum sensing performance and the secondary throughput. In this paper, a novel spectrum sensing scheme is proposed to maximize both sensing accuracy and network energy efficiency. In order to provide a better protection for the PU, another spectrum sensing is adaptively performed according to the first sensing result. In other words, SU will perform spectrum sensing again to confirm that the PU is indeed idle when the first sensing result indicates the PU is idle. Due to the energy constraint in CR sensor networks, this adaptive sensing interval can also be adjusted according to the varying activity of the PU to maximize the network energy efficiency. Finally, our simulation study validates that the proposed scheme improves both the spectrum sensing performance and the energy efficiency compared with other existing methods.

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