Title
Modelling and analysis of detection time trade-offs for channel searching in cognitive radio networks
Abstract
A successful cognitive radio network (CRN) needs a fast and reliable spectrum sensing scheme to enable secondary users to utilise available channels. In this work, the authors first revisit conventional urn models for channel availability (the random independent identical distribution (i.i.d) models) and introduce a correlated Markov model which is apropos for scenarios with memory. After proposing an n-step serial search strategy, the authors investigate the performance of random and serial search schemes for the above occupancy models in terms of the mean number of steps for detection of an `open` channel. The analytical results of the average detection are then presented for different sensing schemes under both random and correlated channel model. The authors then highlight a key trade-off underlying the overall mean time to detect a free channel: it is a function of both the mean number of steps and the sensing time per step. Reduced sensing duration in each step leads to lower detection probability (Pd) thereby increasing the average number of search steps required. This suggests that there exists an optimal sensing duration that minimises the overall mean detection time; this is analytically investigated (for low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)) and verified by simulation results under various SNR environments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1049/iet-com.2010.0554
IET Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
reliable spectrum sensing scheme,detection probability,cognitive radio networks,channel availability,random independent identical distribution,markov model,cognitive radio,correlated channel model,detection time trade-offs,radio spectrum management,radio networks,channel searching,n-step serial search strategy,markov processes,signal-to-noise ratio,probability,signal to noise ratio
Channel models,Markov model,Computer science,Signal-to-noise ratio,Communication channel,Serial search,Real-time computing,Trade offs,Cognitive radio,Channel availability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
8
1751-8628
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.47
16
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ling Luo112219.61
Sumit Roy22245203.71