Spectrum sensing is a key function of cognitive radio to prevent the harmful interference with
licensed users and identify the available spectrum for improving the spectrum's utilization …

Spectrum sensing is an essential technology to detect the presence of primary users'(PUs)
signals in cognitive radio (CR) networks. To achieve desirable performances under …

In cognitive radio (CR) networks, fast and accurate spectrum sensing plays a fundamental
role in achieving high spectral efficiency. In this paper, a reinforcement learning (RL) …

In cognitive radio networks, spectrum sensing is a crucial component in the discovery of
spectrum opportunities for secondary systems (or unlicensed systems). The performance of …

Typically, each cooperative spectrum sensing process requires two phases: the primary
user's signal detection phase, in which all cognitive users attempt to detect the presence of …

The sensing‐throughput trade‐off and the sensing‐energy trade‐off for cooperative
spectrum sensing have been the subject of recent research. Two important, but often …

Spectrum sensing is one of the key functionalities in the implementation of cognitive radio. It
is used to sense the unused spectrum in an opportunistic manner. In this paper, we propose …

This paper presents two-stage detectors for spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks.
The first stage consists of multiple energy detectors, where each energy detector (ED) has a …

Rapidly rising energy costs and increasingly rigid environmental standards have led to an
emerging trend of addressing “energy efficiency” aspect of wireless communication …

Sensing with equal gain combining (SEGC), a novel cooperative spectrum sensing
technique for cognitive radio networks, is proposed. Cognitive radios simultaneously …