Cognitive radio network (CRN) is an upcoming networking technology that can utilize both radio spectrum and wireless resources efficiently based on the information gathered from the past experience. There are two types of users in CRN, namely primary and secondary. PUs (PU) have the license to operate in certain spectrum band while the secondary (SU) or cognitive radio (CR) users do not have the license to operate in the desired band. However, they can opportunistically utilize the unused frequency bands. Spectrum sensing, spectrum management, spectrum sharing, and spectrum mobility are the four major functions of cognitive radio systems. The main objective of spectrum sensing is to provide better spectrum access to CR users, without causing any harmful interference to PUs. Sensing accuracy is considered as the most important factor to determine the performance of cognitive radio network. In this chapter, the challenges and requirement involved in spectrum sensing are detailed. Further, various spectrum sensing basic techniques are also discussed in detail.
Priority-based reserved spectrum allocation by multi-agent through reinforcement learning in cognitive radio network
