Improved likelihood ratio statistic-based cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive radio



Patel, Dhaval, Soni, Brijesh and Lopez-Benitez, Miguel ORCID: 0000-0003-0526-6687
(2020) Improved likelihood ratio statistic-based cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive radio. IET Communications, 14 (11). pp. 1675-1686.

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Abstract

Cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) is a technique where multiple cognitive radio users cooperate among themselves to make binary decisions about the presence of a primary user. The single cognitive user often faces the hidden terminal problem. However, CSS tackles this problem by sending local sensing-based decisions to the fusion centre. A major drawback of conventional energy detection is the poor performance at low SNR regime. In this work, likelihood ratio statistics is considered as a test-statistic due to its highest statistical power. An improved likelihood ratio statistic-based CSS scheme is proposed by considering several past sensing events. The proposed scheme mitigates the poor detection at low SNR regime and misdetections arising due to sudden drops in signal energy. Furthermore, the generalised Byzantine attack is taken into account considering a security aspect. The proposed scheme is also shown to outperform Anderson Darling-based malicious user detection in CSS at a low SNR regime. The proposed scheme is verified and validated over empirical spectrum data. The performance improvement is at the cost of computational time, which in practice is very low and is justified by the significant performance improvements of the proposed scheme at low SNR regime.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: cognitive radio, cooperative communication, radio spectrum management, signal detection, telecommunication security
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 02 Dec 2019 08:25
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 00:18
DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2019.0862
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3063886