Cooperative Sensing at the MAC Level in Simple Cognitive Personal Area Networks
Jelena Mišić · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 2012
We investigate the performance of simple cognitive personal area network (CPAN) with cooperative sensing among the nodes and CPAN coordinator. Nodes are equipped with small buffers of capacity K packets, and each node is allowed to transmit a batch of up to μ packets in one transmission cycle. Upon transmission, each node must support the operation of the CPAN by performing sensing duty. We model this system through probabilistic analysis and a queuing model, and demonstrate the tradeoff between the accuracy of cooperative spectrum sensing and node's ability to communicate.