Performance analysis of shadowed-Rice fading channel with cooperative spectrum sensing

In this paper, the performance analysis of wireless communication system over shadowed-Rice (SR) composite fading channel has been investigated and analysed. The unified analytical expressions of the average symbol error probability (ASEP) for several coherent and non-coherent modulation schemes separately with different constellation sizes are derived for composite fading channel under two different fade mitigation methods, with maximal ratio combining (MRC) microdiversity (Method 1) and MRC applied over the composite fading channel (Method 2). Furthermore, an asymptotic analysis is carried out and a closed-form expression of the ASEP with Method 2 is presented. Analytical expressions of the corresponding average probability of energy detection (PD) are formulated for both the methods. Finally, the derived PD expression is utilised to analyse the performance of cooperative system assuming erroneous feedback channel. Analysis of optimisation of detection threshold as well as number of cognitive users to minimise the total error rate is also carried out. The closed-form expressions are validated by comparing them with exact numerical results and Monte Carlo simulation.