Spectrum Sensing Opportunities in Cognitive Radios

Cognitive radio is observed as a new approach, which could be cope with the spectral limitations. This approach is designed to detect whether a particular segment of the radio spectrum is currently in use and to jump into the temporarily unused spectrum rapidly without interfering with the transmissions of other users. CR is the promising radio technology which aims to detect and utilize the temporally unused spectrum bands by sensing its radio environment in order to improve spectrum utilization. To enhance the sensing performance, cooperative spectrum sensing has been proposed. However, when the number of cognitive user tends to be very large, the bandwidth for reporting sensing results to the common receiver will be very huge. In this paper we described interference avoidance in spectrum sensing and then we illustrated the benefits of cooperation in cognitive radio by considering a simple user network and showing improvement in agility , we propose a practical scheme which allows cooperation between cognitive users.