A selection scheme for optimum number of cooperative secondary users in spectrum sensing

An optimization scheme for choosing the optimum number of secondary users in cooperative spectrum sensing based on the cyclostationary feature detection with Neyman-Pearson criterion is proposed in this paper. The optimal soft combination test statistic for the cooperative spectrum sensing based on cyclostationary feature detection is derived according to the generalized likelihood ratio test and its corresponding detection performance is deduced. A target function, considering two important parameters as the resource use efficiency and the number of samples employed by each cooperative secondary user in the system design, is constructed to obtain the optimum number of cooperative secondary users. It can be found that the selection scheme is to make a tradeoff between the system complexity of the cognitive radio network and the global sensing performance of the cooperative spectrum sensing.