A novel approach of user existence awareness using adaptive spectrum sensing controllers in emergency‐based cognitive radio adhoc networks
Chitra Sudhakaran, M. Suganthi · International Journal of Communication Systems · 2018
Summary Spectrum sharing can be considered as an alternative solution to overcome spectrum limitation. Cognitive radio is the most important spectrum sharing technique in wireless communication system, which aims to enhance the utilization of radio frequency spectrum. Identification of spectrum environments like location of both licensed and unlicensed users has been considered in cognitive radio technology. In this paper, cognitive controller is an emergency repairing unit, which is introduced to maximize the number of connected users in an emergency situation. The analysis shows that the sensing efficiency of fixed sensing controller to identify users is limited to its sensing region. A hybrid technique with overlay and underlay accessing to perform data offloading in emergency situations and to connect the disconnected users is proposed to enhance the location sensing efficiency of the controller. A cognitive user node located at the interference region of controller experiences hidden node problem and causes interference to other users. In order to identify such users, an adaptive and cooperative sensing‐based controller is proposed, and efficiency of which is compared with the efficiency of fixed sensing controller. Theoretical and simulation analysis explores that the sensing capacity of adaptive sensing controller provides 42% of higher efficiency than the fixed sensing method.