Probability‐based fusion rule in cooperative spectrum sensing with impact of geographic location

• Published in: IET communications Vol. 16; no. 9; pp. 963 - 976
• Main Authors: Liu, Xiaoying, Zheng, Kechen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Stevenage John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.06.2022; Wiley
• Subjects: Accuracy; Algorithms; Cognitive radio; Data transmission; Eigenvalues; Energy; False alarms; Geographical locations; Hypotheses; Hypothesis testing; Licenses; Receivers & amplifiers

This paper investigates the impact of geographic locations of secondary users (SUs) on cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) in cognitive radio networks (CRNs), where SUs send their local sensing results to a fusion center (FC) and the FC makes a global spectrum decision by a specific fusion rule. The...