In a sensor-aided cognitive radio network, collaborating battery-powered sensors are
deployed to aid the network in cooperative spectrum sensing. These sensors consume …

This paper addresses the problem of optimal cooperative spectrum sensing in a cognitive-
enabled sensor network where cognitive sensors can cooperate in the sensing of the …

Cooperation is necessitated for tackling the challenges caused by fading/shadowing effects,
noise uncertainty and sensing time constraints in spectrum sensing of cognitive radio …

A promising technology that tackles the conflict between spectrum scarcity and
underutilization is cognitive radio (CR), of which spectrum sensing is one of the most …

Spectrum sensing is essential to identify the presence of primary users (PUs) in cognitive
radio networks. Cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) obtained from the diversity of different …

An efficient cooperative spectrum sensing based cognitive radio network employs a certain
number of secondary users to sense the spectrum while satisfying a constraint on the …

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 …

Cooperative spectrum sensing, which can profoundly improve the ability of discovering the
spectrum opportunities, is regarded as an enabling mechanism for Cognitive Radio …

In this paper, an energy-efficient scheme is proposed for cooperative spectrum sensing in
cognitive sensor networks. In our scheme, we introduce a technique to select the sensing …

The cooperative spectrum sensing techniques in cognitive radio networks increase the
energy consumption while improving the throughput of the system. The energy efficient …