Energy-Efficient Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks

When secondary users (SUs) in a cognitive radio network (CRN) are battery-powered wireless devices, energy resources become very precious. Therefore, it is important that their energies are used efficiently. In this paper, we define the energy efficiency as the ratio of the average throughput of the CRN over the average energy used by the CRN. In cooperative spectrum sensing, the fusion rule threshold, detector's thresholds at the SUs, length of the sensing time, and the number of cooperating SUs will affect both the average throughput and the average energy consumed by the CRN. Therefore, in this paper, we optimize and evaluate these parameters with the aim of maximizing the energy efficiency of the CRN.

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