Title
Spectrum Patrolling With Crowdsourced Spectrum Sensors
Abstract
We use a crowdsourcing approach for RF spectrum patrolling, where heterogeneous, low-cost spectrum sensors are deployed widely and are tasked with detecting unauthorized transmissions while consuming only a limited amount of resources. We pose this as a signal detection problem where the individual sensor’s detection performance may vary widely based on their respective hardware or software configurations, but are hard to model using traditional approaches. Still an optimal subset of sensors and their configurations must be chosen to maximize the overall detection performance subject to given resource (cost) limitations. We present the challenges of this problem in crowdsourced settings and propose a set of methods to address them. These methods use data-driven approaches to model individual sensors and exploit mechanisms for sensor selection and fusion while accounting for their correlated nature. We present performance results using examples of commodity-based spectrum sensors and show significant improvements relative to baseline approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TCCN.2019.2939793
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Cognitive radio,wireless sensor networks,event detection,statistical learning,sensor fusion
Journal
6
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
2332-7731
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arani Bhattacharya1217.10
Ayon Chakraborty2245.54
Samir R. Das35341494.55
Himanshu Gupta42653277.86
Djuric, P.M.51997250.42