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Evidence Theory based Cooperative Energy Detection under Noise UncertaintyAuthors: Sachin Chaudhari,Prakash Gohain Conference: IEEE GLOBECOM 2017 Date: 2017-12-04 Report no: IIIT/TR/2017/90 AbstractNoise power uncertainty is a major issue in detectors for spectrum sensing. Any uncertainty in the noise power leads to significant reduction in the detection performance of the energy detector and also results in a performance limitation in the form of SNR walls. In this paper, we propose an evidence theory (also called Dempster-Shafer theory (DST)) based cooperative energy detection (CED) for spectrum sensing. The noise variance is modeled as a random variable with a known distribution. The analyzed system model is similar to a distributed parallel detection network where each secondary user (SU) evaluates the energy from its received signal samples and sends it to a fusion center (FC), which makes the final decision. However, in the proposed DST-based CED scheme, the SUs sends computed belief-values instead of actual energy value to the FC. Any uncertainty in the noise variance is accounted for by discounting the belief values based on the amount of uncertainty associated with each SU. Finally, the discounted belief values are combined using Dempster rule to reach at a global decision. Simulation results indicate that the proposed DST scheme significantly improves the detection probability at low average signal-to-noise ratio (ASNR) in comparison to the traditional sum fusion rule in the presence of noise uncertainty. Index Terms —Cognitive radio, cooperative energy detection, data fusion, Dempster-Shafer theory, noise uncertainty. Full paper: pdf Centre for Communications |
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