Improving the lifetime of multichannel cognitive radio sensor networks via new spectrum sensing method
Maryam Monemian, Mehdi Mahdavi, Mohammad Javad Omidi · Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies · 2018
Abstract Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks (CRSNs) are wireless sensor networks implemented with cognitive radio capability to provide spectrum resources for sensors in an opportunistic manner. The application of CRSNs can be found in the paradigm of Internet of Things (IoT) where each sensor represents an object in the IoT paradigm. In order to prevent simultaneous transmissions of Primary Users (PUs) and CRSN nodes, sensors should be aware of the presence of PUs. One of the most common methods for making the sensors aware of the presence of PUs is consecutive spectrum sensing. Since the sensors have the duty of both sensing environment and transmitting the results, their battery lives are highly prone to rapid drain. In addition, the lack of effective management of sensor operations for spectrum sensing may lead to short longevity of the network. In this paper, the energy consumption process of sensors in such networks has been analyzed and an energy‐based algorithm is proposed to appropriately select sensors based on their detection probabilities for spectrum sensing. The analytical and numerical results confirm the improved lifetime and performance based on our proposed algorithm in comparison with the conventional ones. Moreover, the computational complexity of the proposed algorithm is significantly lower than that of the existing methods.