Coalition Formation Games for Collaborative Spectrum Sensing

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10/21/2010

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IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Abstract

Collaborative spectrum sensing (CSS) between secondary users (SUs) in cognitive networks exhibits an inherent tradeoff between minimizing the probability of missing the detection of the primary user (PU) and maintaining a reasonable false alarm probability (e.g., for maintaining good spectrum utilization). In this paper, we study the impact of this tradeoff on the network structure and the cooperative incentives of the SUs that seek to cooperate to improve their detection performance. We model the CSS problem as a nontransferable coalitional game, and we propose distributed algorithms for coalition formation (CF). First, we construct a distributed CF algorithm that allows the SUs to self-organize into disjoint coalitions while accounting for the CSS tradeoff. Then, the CF algorithm is complemented with a coalitional voting game to enable distributed CF with detection probability (CF-PD) guarantees when required by the PU. The CF-PD algorithm allows the SUs to form minimal winning coalitions (MWCs), i.e., coalitions that achieve the target detection probability with minimal costs. For both algorithms, we study and prove various properties pertaining to network structure, adaptation to mobility, and stability. Simulation results show that CF reduces the average probability of miss per SU up to 88.45%, relative to the noncooperative case, while maintaining a desired false alarm. For CF-PD, the results show that up to 87.25% of the SUs achieve the required detection probability through MWCs.

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Coalitional game, cognitive radio, collaborative sensing, game theory, spectrum sensing

Citation

Copyright 2010 IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. This is a pre-print version of a published paper that is available at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5607318. Recommended citation: Saad, Walid, Zhu Han, Tamer Basar, Mérouane Debbah, and Are Hjorungnes. "Coalition formation games for collaborative spectrum sensing." IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 60, no. 1 (2010): 276-297. doi: 10.1109/TVT.2010.2089477. This item has been deposited in accordance with publisher copyright and licensing terms and with the author's permission.