认知无线电最优线性协作宽带频谱感知

本文提出了基于最优线性协作的宽带频谱感知方案。通过次级用户之间的协作,为认知网络的频谱感知提供分集,利用融合中心融合多个次级用户的宽带频谱感知数据来获取最优权重,并生成全局判决统计量,最终使用全局阈值完成最后的检测判决。由于所提出的两种协作宽带感知方案或需要精确地估计授权用户的信号强度和噪声方差,或感知性能不足,因而,还提出一种更易实现的方案。理论分析和仿真结果表明,本文所提出的协作感知方案可以有效地提高频谱感知性能,并且性能优于传统等增益合并方案。      

Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Scheme with Hard Decision Based on Location Information in Cognitive Radio Networks

Without an efficient way to achieve the reliability of the decision, the implementation of weighted data fusion is limited in the hard decision combination for cooperative spectrum sensing. To address this problem, a new cooperative spectrum sensing scheme based on the location information of the primary user (PU) and cognitive radio (CR) is proposed. In the new scheme, depending on the location information, the channel condition between the PU and each CR is obtained at the fusion center (FC), with which the local sensing reliability is first achieved. Then we calculate the transmission reliability between the CR and FC. Based on both the local sensing reliability and the transmission reliability, the combining weighting factor is determined for optimal data fusion. On the basis of this proposed scheme, we study the global sensing false alarm and detection probabilities, derive the expressions to obtain the optimal local sensing threshold, and perform an error analysis that demonstrates the impact of imperfect channel knowledge. Using both analytical and simulation methods, we find that the proposed scheme achieves better performance compared with the conventional logical fusion rules in the hard decision combination for cooperative spectrum sensing.     

认知无线电网络中基于最大似然准则的协同频谱检测算法研究

提出一种集中式频谱协同检测算法。各认知节点采用能量检测算法,然后使用最大似然准则进行本地判决,且把似然比作为本地判决可靠性的度量;中心节点基于可信度对接收到的认知节点本地检测数据进行数据融合。仿真结果显示,文中提出的认知节点协同频谱检测方案能够减少误检概率。特别是当信道处于深衰落时,少量节点参与协同就能获得较好的检测性能。     

基于ESD测试的无线电网络抗SSDF攻击协作频谱感知方案

针对认知无线电网络中协作频谱感知容易遭受数据伪造攻击的问题,提出一种基于检验统计和极端学生化偏差检验法的协作频谱感知方案。首先,将差分进化算法与加权增益合并软决策融合方法相结合,形成一种高效的节点决策融合机制。然后,在协作感知中,根据节点的软决策数据,利用检验统计消除故障认知节点。最后,利用提出的改进型ESD检验法消除恶意认知节点,从而形成全局决策。仿真结果表明,该方案在协作感知中能够有效过滤SSDF攻击数据,具有较低的误检测率。     

授权用户信号随机到达时基于双门限的多用户合作频谱感知方法

针对认知无线电系统中可能出现的授权用户信号随机到达时的频谱感知问题,提出了一种基于双门限的多用户合作频谱感知方法.首先在本地判决时采用高低双门限的方式,如果判决量大于高门限就判1,小于低门限判0,在两个门限之间就把判决量直接发送给融合中心,融合中心将直接收到的判决量进行软判决合并,软判决的结果再与其他硬判决的结果进行"OR原则"的硬判决合并,从而得到最终的判决结果.仿真表明所提方法的性能比传统"OR原则"硬判决合并方案要好,仅仅略逊于传统等增益软判决合并方案,但是能大量节省认知网络中的传输比特数.     

Cooperative spectrum sensing under unreliable reporting channels

This article analyzes a cooperative spectrum sensing scheme using a distributed approach with a fusion center considering an unreliable reporting channel. The spectrum sensing is applied to a cognitive radio system, where each cognitive radio sends its decision to a fusion center through a reporting channel, in which an n-out-of-K rule is applied. We compare the performance of the decision rules, analyzing the impact of the errors introduced by the reporting channel, considering the Bayes risk criterion.     

Sensor node-assisted asynchronous cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive radio network

In order to take advantage of the asynchronous sensing information, alleviate the sensing overhead of secondary users （SUs） and improve the detection performance, a sensor node-assisted asynchronous cooperative spectrum sensing （SN-ACSS） scheme for cognitive radio （CR） network （CRN） was proposed. In SN-ACSS, each SU is surrounded by sensor nodes （SNs）, which asynchronously make hard decisions and soft decisions based on the Bayesian fusion rule instead of the SU. The SU combines these soft decisions and makes the local soft decision. Finally, the fusion center （FC） fuses the local soft decisions transmitted from SUs with different weight coefficients to attain the final soft decision. Besides, the impact of the statistics of licensed band occupancy on detection performance and the fact that different SNs have different sensing contributions are also considered in SN-ACSS scheme. Numerical results show that compared with the conventional synchronous cooperative spectrum sensing （SCSS） and the existing ACSS schemes, SN-ACSS algorithm achieves a better detection performance and lower cost with the same number of SNs.     

集中式双非参量累积和的合作频谱感知技术

针对认知无线电网络频谱感知的检测时延降低问题，提出了一种采用双非参量累积和的合作频谱感知方法。在单主用户认知网络中，本地认知用户执行非参量累积和算法，处理能量观测数据，以缩短检测时延，减少对主用户先验信息的需求，同时为了降低带宽开销，只向融合中心传输1比特的预判决结果。融合中心在噪声干扰下接收融合预判决结果，执行非参量累积和算法，累加判决统计量，对主用户信号是否存在进行最终判决。仿真结果表明，在10%的虚警概率下，相比于传统的非参量合作频谱感知算法，双非参量累积和算法具有较低的检测延迟。      

基于可靠次用户信息的协作频谱感知算法研究

对认知无线电系统最基本要求之一就是次用户必须有能力以高的精确率来确定主用户是否存在。而以前对认知无线电频谱感知的研究表明:在实际认知网络中次用户之间的相互协作可以提高其频谱检测性能。然而,对于协作频谱感知而言,随着协作次用户数目的增加,势必会增大用于传输本地检测结果到融合中心的专用控制信道带宽,从而增加系统开销。该文在控制信道带宽有限的约束条件下,提出一种通过考虑可靠次用户信息的协作频谱感知算法来进一步改善频谱检测的性能。该算法的基本思想:只有具有可靠的本地检测结果的次用户才发送自己的检测结果到融合中心,否则,该次用户不发送任何信息。同时,对提出的该算法在理论上进行了推导,通过仿真结果表明:在控制信道带宽受限的约束下,相比于传统的或门协作频谱感知算法,提出的算法能够大大改善对主用户的检测性能。     

基于 DS 证据理论的协作频谱感知改进方法

提出了一种新的协作频谱感知方法,该方法采用DS证据理论。首先,在本地感知通过投影近似法分解感知结果以减少次级用户上报至融合中心的感知数据,从而降低协作带宽开销。其次,在融合中心根据次级用户证据矢量之间的距离计算可信度,以可信度为权重对每个次级用户的基本概率分配进行加权平均来减小高度冲突数据对检测性能的影响。仿真结果表明,该方法减少了协作感知的带宽开销,改善了数据高度冲突时的检测性能。     

Scalable and Robust ANN Based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Networks

Cognitive radio network (CRN) supports dynamic spectrum access addressing spectrum scarcity issue experienced by today’s wireless communication network. Sensing is an important task and cooperative spectrum sensing is used for improving detection performance of spectrum. The sensing information from individual secondary users is sent to fusion center to infer a common global decision regarding primary user’s presence. Various fusion schemes for decision making are proposed in the literature but they lack scalability and robustness. We have introduced artificial neural network (ANN) at fusion center thereby achieving significant improvement in detection performance and reduction in false alarm rate as compared to conventional schemes. The proposed ANN scheme is found capable to deal with scalability of CRN with consistent performance. Further, SNR of individual Secondary user is taken into consideration in decision making at fusion center. Moreover the proposed scheme is tested against security attack (malicious users) and inadvertent errors occurring at SUs are found to be robust.     

基于信道统计特征的认知无线电协作频谱检测

针对认知无线电到融合中心间的控制信道为Nakagami-m衰落信道的情况,研究了认知无线电协作频谱检测问题,推导出融合中心利用衰落信道统计特征的似然比协作频谱检测公式.该方法不需要瞬时信道状态信息,简化了协作频谱检测过程,便于实际应用.通过仿真对融合中心的协作频谱检测性能进行了分析,结果表明:利用衰落信道统计特征的似然比协作频谱检测的性能较利用瞬时信道状态信息的似然比频谱检测性能略有下降,但是在高信噪比或衰落不严重的情况下,二者的性能非常接近,认知无线电节点个数对两种频谱检测方法间的性能差距几乎没有影响.     

协作频谱感知中快速自适应门限策略

频谱感知是认知无线电的一个重要组成部分。在异构网络中,认知节点的移动会导致接收信号强度和噪声功率发生变化,这使得采用固定门限参数的频谱感知策略无法保证在任何时候均工作于最优感知状态。为了解决这一问题,该文提出一种自适应门限参数的协作频谱感知策略。该策略无需主用户信号、信道以及环境噪声的任何先验信息,参与协作的所有认知节点采用最陡下降法自适应调节门限参数,控制中心采用最优数据融合算法获得最小检测代价。仿真结果显示,当认知节点参数发生变化时,协作节点的门限参数快速收敛于最优值,使系统贝叶斯风险最小。     

Novel quantization‐based spectrum sensing scheme under imperfect reporting channel and false reports

In this paper, a novel sensing scheme, uniform quantization for cooperative sensing (UniQCS), that employs a uniform quantizer is proposed. UniQCS is based on energy detection and uses weight vector for global decision function. It performs better than hard decision algorithms such as majority and k‐out‐of‐n in terms of probability of detection and false alarm at the cost of a marginal increase in overhead bits under imperfect reporting channel and false reports. The probability of detection is maximized for a given probability of false alarm constraint by the proposed method. For detailed analysis, the UniQCS is compared with equal gain combiner scheme, which performs far better than hard decision algorithms, via highest bandwidth requirement. The proposed algorithm performs close to equal gain combiner. Moreover, the robustness of UniQCS to sensing error is analyzed when some nodes always report false decisions to the fusion center and the reporting channel is imperfect. For probability of false alarm equal to 0.01, performance gain of UniQCS is at least 45% compared with the other methods when there are two false reporting nodes. UniQCS performance gain is at least 15% compared with other methods for probability of reporting channel error equal to 0.001. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

衰落信道下基于簇的协作频谱感知分析

在分布式协作频谱感知网络中,认知用户向融合中心上报本地检测的信道是带宽受限的,并且受各种衰落的影响。分析了衰落信道下认知用户通过"与"规则进行融合的协作感知策略,提出了认知用户间为Nakagami信道时基于簇理论的协作感知方案,推导得出了2种方法的检测概率和归一化平均感知比特数。仿真结果表明,基于簇理论的协作感知通过牺牲一定的信令开销得到较好的感知性能。     

A novel cooperative spectrum sensing scheme based on virtual soft information fusion

In cognitive radio (CR), the performance of hard information fusion (HIF) strategy for cooperative sensing will deteriorate when cooperative CR user are not uniformly reliable. To deal with this problem, this paper proposed a novel virtual soft information fusion (VSIF) strategy which uses expectation for primary users (PU) presence probability to replace the local sensing decision of each user in the information fusion. Compared with the HIF-based scheme, VSIF-based sensing scheme keeps the advantages of low data transmission in HIF-based scheme, and modifies the way of information fusion at the fusion center to achieve better performance when the user sensing reliability is non-uniform. Simulation shows VSIF strategy has significant superiority on the missing detection probability over HIF in the scenarios of non-uniform user reliability.     

基于非参量累积和的合作频谱感知

针对认知无线电网络中频谱感知的检测时延降低问题,提出了基于非参量累积和的合作频谱感知算法。本地认知用户预处理频谱观测数据,获得观测数据相对于信念值的正向漂移和负向漂移。为了缩短检测延迟,认知用户只将数据的正向漂移同步传输至融合中心。融合中心融合正向漂移得到判决信息,采用非参量累积和算法依时间序列顺序累加判决信息,判断主用户是否正在使用授权频段。为了解决不传输负向漂移引起的虚警问题,改进算法提出融合中心可以保留首次判决,经过等待时间间隔后再作出最终判决。相对于传统的软融合算法,改进融合规则的合作频谱感知算法具有较低的检测延迟。     

Distance criterion-based quantizer design for cooperative spectrum sensing

In terms of sensing node’s energy and reporting channel’s bandwidth constrains problem for cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks,an optimal quantizer design method based on distance criterion was proposed.First of all,the Bhattacharyya distance of received quantized data at the fusion center (FC) was calculated as performance criteria,the optimization mathematical model of the quantizer was constructed,and the optimum quantization thresholds were obtained by using particle swarm optimization algorithm.According to received sensing nodes’ quantized data at the FC,a log-likelihood ratio detector was constructed to decide the presence or absence of primary user signal,the upper bound to sensing performance of energy detector that without quantization was derived.Compared with the existing methods in literatures,the performance of proposed 3-bit quantization method approaches to the upper bound performance of energy detector,under the premise of obtaining comparable detection performance,the requirement of communication bandwidth is reduced.     

Wireless distributed computing for cyclostationary feature detection

Recently, wireless distributed computing (WDC) concept has emerged promising manifolds improvements to current wireless technologies. Despite the various expected benefits of this concept, significant drawbacks were addressed in the open literature. One of WDC key challenges is the impact of wireless channel quality on the load of distributed computations. Therefore, this research investigates the wireless channel impact on WDC performance when the latter is applied to spectrum sensing in cognitive radio (CR) technology. However, a trade-off is found between accuracy and computational complexity in spectrum sensing approaches. Increasing these approaches accuracy is accompanied by an increase in computational complexity. This results in greater power consumption and processing time. A novel WDC scheme for cyclostationary feature detection spectrum sensing approach is proposed in this paper and thoroughly investigated. The benefits of the proposed scheme are firstly presented. Then, the impact of the wireless channel of the proposed scheme is addressed considering two scenarios. In the first scenario, workload matrices are distributed over the wireless channel. Then, a fusion center combines these matrices in order to make a decision. Meanwhile, in the second scenario, local decisions are made by CRs, then, only a binary flag is sent to the fusion center.     

基于表决融合的带宽受限的协作频谱感知算法

协作的频谱感知使认知无线电（CR）网络对主用户进行可靠的检测,并避免了对主用户通信的干扰。数据融合是协作的频谱感知的关键技术。但是当协作认知无线电用户较多时,它们向融合中心汇报的感知信息就会占用大量的带宽。本文提出了将表决融合准则与检查策略相结合的协作频谱感知的方法,来减少发往融合中心的平均感知比特数,从而有效节约传输带宽。推导分析了该算法在理想信道和非理想信道中的频谱感知性能,并给出了这两种情况检测概率的闭合式。仿真结果表明,此种基于表决融合准则的检查协作频谱感知算法的性能最优,即在较高的感知性能下有大量的感知比特的节约。