Design of Hybrid Blind Detection Based Spectrum Sensing Technique

Abstract

Cognitive Radio is a boon to efficient utilization of spectrum to meet the demand of next generation. Spectrum Sensing (SS) is an active research area, essential to meet the requirement of efficient spectrum utilization as it detects the vacant bands. This paper develops a Hybrid Blind Detection (HBD) technique for cooperative spectrum sensing which combines the Energy Detector (ED) and the Anti-Eigen Value Detection (AVD) techniques together to enhance the detection accuracy of a cognitive radio. Collaboration among the cognitive users is achieved to reduce the error and hard fusion based detection is implemented to detect the existence of primary user. The detection accuracy of the design is evaluated with respect to detection probabilities and the results are examined for improvements with the traditional two stage detection techniques. Fusion rules for the cooperative environment are implemented and compared to detect majority rule suitable for the proposed design.