A Novel Spectrum Handoff Scheme with Spectrum Admission Control in Cognitive Radio Networks

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new spectrum handoff scheme with spectrum admission control (SAC). In the proposed scheme, the secondary users (SUs) make up secondary user groups (SUGs) to achieve appointed detection probability of primary user signals, and perform spectrum handoff to an available spectrum when the primary users (PUs) reuse the spectrum in cognitive radio networks (CRNs). A simple Markov model is adopted to analyze the performance of spectrum handoff in terms of blocking probability, forced termination probability and throughput of the cognitive radio system. Numerical results show that the new handoff strategy is suitable for multi-user cognitive radio systems, and that spectrum admission control and cooperative sensing can effectively increase the efficiency of spectrum handoff.