Designing a cognitive radio with enhancement in throughput and improved spectrum sensing technique

Abstract

An important advantage of cognitive radio is its ability to use the licensed frequency spectrum which is being utilized by the primary users. CR has two major roles viz. sensing and throughput optimization. In contrary to conventional methods of sensing viz. cyclostationarity, matched filter detection, maximum to minimum eigen value method etc., spectrum sensing has been improved by implementing Peak vs Average Power Ratio of the received signal in energy detection in the presentation. It has the additional advantages that prior information of the license user is not required and it is free from noise uncertainty. In this paper, the design of the frame for MAC layer has been based on Wireless spectrum Sensing network (WSSN). The access of the channel to the secondary users is done through Handshaking Algorithm. A hybrid frame structure based on CSA and DSA has been devised for the WSSN network and has been implemented which overcomes the drawback of Conventional frame format. The WSSN network removes the sensing time from the Secondary user's frame thereby increasing the transmission time of data and hence the throughput of the system. The cognitive radio frame structure, thus designed in the present paper, improves the throughput of the system and enhance the Spectrum sensing techniques. Finally, the simulation results shows that the proposed method performs better than the conventional method in throughput and provides efficient spectrum sensing technique.