摘要

The cognitive radio technology enables secondary users (SUs) to occupy licensed bands when primary users (PUs) are not occupy them. Spectrum sensing is a key technology for SUs to detect PUs, and the sensing time is a critical parameter for spectrum sensing performance. Optimum sensing time tradeoffs between the spectrum sensing performance and the secondary throughput. This paper proposes a novel spectrum sensing scheme that performs spectrum sensing for either one period or two periods based on the previous sensing result. Due to the energy constraint in cognitive radio sensor networks, the energy efficiency is maximized by optimizing spectrum sensing time. In order to seek the optimal sensing time, the objective function is proven to be a concave function and the Golden Section Search method is employed. Our simulation study verifies that the proposed scheme improves the network energy efficiency, especially when PUs are more active.

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