Behave Well: How to Win a Pop Vacant Band via Cooperative Spectrum Sensing

• Jingyu Feng,
• Guangyue Lu,
• Hong Chang,

Vol. 9, No. 4, April 29, 2015
10.3837/tiis.2015.04.003, Download Paper (Free):

• cognitive radio
• cooperative spectrum sensing
• competitive coefficient
• security.

Abstract

Cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) for vacant licensed bands is one of the key techniques in cognitive radio networks. However, current CSS schemes focus on ensuring an efficient cooperation among secondary users (SUs), but ignoring their competition. At the same time when several SUs want to a vacant band, how to win this pop vacant band for an SU becomes more and more important. Inspired by the idea that an SU who always behaves well will win a pop vacant band more easily, we propose a competition scheme called BehaveWell (BW) in this paper. By analyzing the main threats against CSS, competitive coefficient is introduced to evaluate each SU’s past behaviors in CSS. A higher competitive coefficient is very helpful for an SU to win a pop vacant band. This BW scheme can not only enhance a healthy competition among SUs, but also improve the security of CSS. Simulations verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

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