Sensing tasks allocation in cellular-based cognitive radio network

In Cognitive Radio (CR) Networks, especially in Cellular-based CR networks, in order to obtain the precise spectrum state which is available in the whole coverage, the spectrum sensing function need to be accomplished by the cooperation of multi-sensing nodes, i.e., cooperative spectrum sensing. This paper mainly focuses on the key question of the cooperative spectrum sensing: How many sensing nodes are required and how to allocate the sensing tasks to these sensing nodes in an effective way? In this paper, we classify the spectrum bands into three categories by a pre-sensing mechanism, in order to firstly exclude unavailable channels and select candidate channels for fine sensing in the next stage. Then the required number of sensing node for each candidate channel is determined by the proposed scheme. Through the scheme proposed in this paper, the sensing tasks allocation in cellular-based CR network can be accomplished in a high effective way and the sensing overhead could keep a low level.