Scalable learning-based heterogeneous multi-band multi-user cooperative spectrum sensing for distributed IoT systems

A Gharib, W Ejaz, M Ibnkahla - IEEE Open Journal of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerge of Internet of Things (IoT) brings up revolutionary changes to wireless
communications. Cognitive radio (CR) can be seen as one of the prominent solutions to …

Distributed learning-based multi-band multi-user cooperative sensing in cognitive radio networks

A Gharib, W Ejaz, M Ibnkahla - 2018 IEEE Global …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-band cooperative spectrum sensing can provide access to a wide range of spectrum in
cognitive radio networks (CRNs). The design of multi-band spectrum sensing is very …

Enhanced multiband multiuser cooperative spectrum sensing for distributed CRNs

A Gharib, W Ejaz, M Ibnkahla - IEEE Transactions on Cognitive …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-band cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) can provide opportunistic spectrum access
to secondary users (SUs) in cognitive radio networks (CRNs). In multi-band CSS, the …

Multi-objective distributed cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks using greedy-based coalitional game

P Chauhan, SK Deka, N Sarma - Physical Communication, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, we propose a distributed cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) scheme for
cognitive radio networks applying a greedy-based coalitional game. We formulate the …

Capacity-aware cooperative spectrum sensing based on noise power estimation

V Rakovic, D Denkovski, V Atanasovski… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most cooperative spectrum sensing research activities focus on maximizing the primary user
detection and neglect the achieved secondary system performance. This paper proposes a …

A cooperative spectrum sensing with multi-agent reinforcement learning approach in cognitive radio networks

A Gao, C Du, SX Ng, W Liang - IEEE Communications Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cognitive radio networks (CRNs) can greatly improve the temporal and spatial spectrum
utilization by identifying and exploring spectrum holes of the licensed primary users (PUs) …

Adaptive assignment of heterogeneous users for group-based cooperative spectrum sensing

L Khalid, A Anpalagan - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider a multichannel cognitive radio network, where cooperative
secondary users have heterogeneous sensing ability in terms of their sensing accuracy. We …

Unsupervised two-stage learning framework for cooperative spectrum sensing

NA Khalek, W Hamouda - ICC 2021-IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A cognitive radio (CR) network consists of wireless devices that opportunistically borrow
vacant licensed bands. Cognitive users adaptively employ a perception-action decision …

Group-based multibit cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks

J So, W Sung - IEEE transactions on vehicular technology, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS), a multibit combination rule shows better sensing
performance than one-bit hard combination rules at the sacrifice of the reporting overhead …

Consensus-based decentralized clustering for cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks

QH Wu, GR Ding, JL Wang, XQ Li, YZ Huang - Chinese Science Bulletin, 2012 - Springer
A large number of previous works have demonstrated that cooperative spectrum sensing
(CSS) among multiple users can greatly improve detection performance. However, when the …