Inter and Intra Fusion Schemes for Energy Efficient CB-CSS in Cognitive Wireless Networks.

The main challenge of Cognitive Radio (CR) is to identify the occurrence of primary users (PU) effectively to mitigate interference with licenced communications. The occurrence of PU is identified by spectrum sensing (SS). Due to shadowing and deep fading, SS may produce false sensing results. Cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) can mitigate these problems but at the cost of extra energy consumption especially when the CR users are battery functioned. In CSS, the fusion rule directly affects the energy efficiency (EE) of CR users, it can be optimised to increase EE. Moreover, the energy consumption of the CR users can be minimised if they are grouped into clusters. In this paper intra and inter fusion schemes have been proposed in a cluster-based CSS (CB-CSS). The overall EE is maximised by optimising the inter and intra fusion rule threshold of CB-CSS. An iterative algorithm has been presented that determines the optimal value of inter and intra fusion rule. Results show that for 6X6cluster size, optimum inter and intra fusion rule threshold is found to be 4 and 5, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]