scholarly journals Optimized Non-Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Algorithm in Cognitive Wireless Sensor Networks

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 2174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yangyi Chen ◽  
Shaojing Su ◽  
Huiwen Yin ◽  
Xiaojun Guo ◽  
Zhen Zuo ◽  
...  

The cognitive wireless sensor network (CWSN) is an important development direction of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), and spectrum sensing technology is an essential prerequisite for CWSN to achieve spectrum sharing. However, the existing non-cooperative narrowband spectrum sensing technology has difficulty meeting the application requirements of CWSN at present. In this paper, we present a non-cooperative spectrum sensing algorithm for CWSN, which combines the multi-resolution technique, phase space reconstruction method, and singular spectrum entropy method to sense the spectrum of narrowband wireless signals. Simulation results validate that this algorithm can greatly improve the detection probability at a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) (from −19dB to −12dB), and the detector can quickly achieve the best detection performance as the SNR increases. This algorithm could promote the development of CWSN and the application of WSNs.

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaoyang Men ◽  
Pascal Chargé ◽  
Sébastien Pillement

Cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) is able to effectively solve the hidden terminal, depth attenuation, multipath shadows and other issues which are not addressed by the single-user sensing. Therefore, it has attracted a large amount of interest and several CSS algorithms have been proposed. However, they are not specifically tailored for cognitive wireless sensor networks (CWSNs) where transmission reliability, power management and interference avoidance are critical issues. In this paper, we propose a robust and energy efficient CSS scheme in CWSNs. Firstly, taking into account the limited energy of sensor node, especially the mobile node, we introduce the nodes of the network into multiple clusters for the CSS in order to save energy consumed in reporting results and exchanging information and extend the lifetime of the network. Secondly, we consider that some cognitive nodes may not work as expected. Hence, facing the problem of faulty nodes in clusters, we propose an evaluation method which considers simultaneously the node reliability and the mutually supportive degree among different nodes to support adapted decisions. Finally, after removing the node of low credibility, the energy efficiency and reliability of each cluster are improved significantly. Simulation results allow to validate that the proposed method outperforms the state of the art in energy efficiency and detection reliability, even in presence of faulty nodes.


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