Cooperative wideband spectrum sensing using radio frequency sensor networks

This paper implements spectrum sensing using a radio frequency sensor network and analyzes the performance of this implementation through simulation. A sensor network based cooperative wideband spectrum sensing scheme is proposed for the implementation of this task. In the proposed scheme, wavelet-based multi-resolution spectrum sensing, which was originally proposed for cognitive radio applications, is adapted to radio frequency sensor networks. For cooperation of the nodes in the proposed scheme, a new three-bit hard combination technique is developed. A simulation model is created in MATLAB programming language to implement the proposed scheme and to analyze its simulation performance. The results of the simulation show that the proposed sensor network based cooperative wideband spectrum sensing scheme is appropriate for radio frequency sensor networks and the proposed three-bit hard combination scheme is superior to the traditional hard combination schemes in terms of false alarm reduction.