Novel sensing mechanism for full-duplex secondary users in cognitive radio

International audienceIn this paper, we present a new Transmitting-Receiving-Sensing (TRS) mechanism for full-duplex cognitive radio. Our proposed mechanism permits Secondary Users (SUs) to establish a bidirectional communication over the same frequency band while keeping aware of the Primary User (PU) activity status. The activity period of SU in our proposed mechanism is composed of two stages: In the first stage SU communicates in bidirectional way with his peer SU. At the second stage, one of the SUs becomes silent in order to do not disturb his peer, which performs a spectrum sensing and remains active at the same time using self-interference cancellation technique. The probability of collision related to our mechanism is derived as well as the probability of waste and the average throughput. Our simulation results show that the proposed mechanism can significantly decrease the probability of collision at low SNRp (Signal to Noise Ratio of PU at SU)