Title
The False Positive Congestion Problem And Probabilistic Spectrum Sensing
Abstract
We assess the problem of band congestion due to spectrum sensing false positives combined with a guard-band policy. We calculate the size distribution of spectral white spaces to find that large fractions of a band can be wasted even for small probabilities of false positives in single bins. To ameliorate this problem, we propose an algorithm consisting of random bin sampling followed by density clustering. The clustering algorithm yields a dramatic enhancement of the false positive rejection rate due to large differences between the densities of true and false detections. Simultaneously, a reduction in sensing time is possible due to the fact that the number of randomly sampled bins need only be a small fraction of the total number of bins. We explain the theory behind this method, compare to simulation, and derive heuristic guidelines for its implementation.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2012
2012 IEEE MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE (MILCOM 2012)
spectrum sensing, dynamic spectrum access, clustering, cognitive radio
Field
DocType
ISSN
Heuristic,White spaces,Detection theory,Computer science,Algorithm,Electronic engineering,Sampling (statistics),Probabilistic logic,Cluster analysis,Statistics,Rejection rate,False positive paradox
Conference
2155-7578
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
5
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrew Robertson1123.10
Molnar, J.A.211.40