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Optimal Soft Decision for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Systems

무선 인지 시스템에서 협력 스펙트럼 센싱을 위한 최적화된 연판정 방식

  • Lee, So-Young (Spectrum & Standardization Research Team, Korea Radio Promotion Association) ;
  • Kim, Jin-Young (Department of Wireless Communications Engineering, Kwangwoon University)
  • 이소영 (한국전파진흥협회 기술지원팀) ;
  • 김진영 (광운대학교 전파공학과)
  • Accepted : 2011.03.30
  • Published : 2011.04.30

Abstract

Cooperative spectrum sensing is proposed to overcome some problem such as multipath fading and shadowing and to improve spectrum sensing performance. There are different combining methods for cooperative spectrum sensing: hard decision method and soft decision method. In this paper, we analysis the performance of cooperative spectrum sensing with distance based weight that is kind of a soft decision rule for cognitive radio(CR) systems and CR systems sense the spectrum of the licensed user by using a energy detection method. Threshold is determined in accordance with the constant false alarm rate(CFAR) algorithm for energy detection. The signal of licensed user is OFDM signal and the wireless channel between a licensed user and CR systems is modeled as Gaussian channel. From the simulation results, the cooperative spectrum sensing with distance based weight combining(DWC) and equal gain combing(EGC) methods shows higher spectrum sensing performance than single spectrum sensing does. And the detection probability performance with the DWC is higher than that with the EGC.

협력 스펙트럼 센싱은 스펙트럼 센싱의 신뢰성 및 정확도를 높이기 위해 다수의 CR 기기들이 정보를 공유하여 면허 사용자를 검출하는 방식이다. 이때, CR 기기의 센싱 결과를 융합하는 방식에 따라 경판정 방식(hard decision method)과 연판정 방식(soft decision method)으로 구별할 수 있다. 본 논문은 면허 사용자와 CR 기기 사이의 거리에 따른 가중치가 적용된 결합 방식(Distance based Weight Combining: DWC)을 사용하여 에너지 검출기반 협력 스펙트럼 센싱을 제안하고, 이에 따른 분석 및 모의 실험 결과를 나타낸다. 면허 사용자의 신호는 OFDM 기반의 시스템을 가정하였으며, 면허 사용자와 CR 기기 사이의 무선 채널은 가우시안(Gaussian) 채널로 모델링하였다. 에너지 검출법을 위한 임계값은 각 채널의 SNR(Signal to Noise Ratio)에 따라 다르게 적용되었으며, 각 채널의 잡음 신호의 평균값으로 가정하였다. DWC를 적용한 협력 스펙트럼 센싱을 수행한 결과, 거리에 따라 다양한 검출 확률을 나타낸 단일 센싱에 비해 비교적 안정된 검출 확률을 나타내는 것으로 알 수 있었으며, 동일 이득 결합을 반영하여 협력 스펙트럼 센싱을 수행한 것보다 우수한 스펙트럼 센싱을 나타내었다.

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