In cognitive vehicular networks (CVNs), many envisioned applications related to safety require highly reliable connectivity. This paper investigates the issue of robust and efficient cooperative spectrum sensing in CVNs. We propose robust cooperative spectrum sensing via low-rank matrix recovery (LRMR-RCSS) in cognitive vehicular networks to address the uncertainty of the quality of potentially corrupted sensing data by utilizing the real spectrum occupancy matrix and corrupted data matrix, which have a simultaneously low-rank and joint-sparse structure. Considering that the sensing data from crowd cognitive vehicles would be vast, we extend our robust cooperative spectrum sensing algorithm to dense cognitive vehicular networks via weighted low-rank matrix recovery (WLRMR-RCSS) to reduce the complexity of cooperative spectrum sensing. In the WLRMR-RCSS algorithm, we propose a correlation-aware selection and weight assignment scheme to take advantage of secondary user (SU) diversity and reduce the cooperation overhead. Extensive simulation results demonstrate that the proposed LRMR-RCSS and WLRMR-RCSS algorithms have good performance in resisting malicious SU behavior. Moreover, the simulations demonstrate that the proposed WLRMR-RCSS algorithm could be successfully applied to a dense traffic environment.
Robust and Low-Complexity Cooperative Spectrum Sensing via Low-Rank Matrix Recovery in Cognitive Vehicular Networks